President Joe Biden held an off-the-record conversation with journalists in which he mainly complained about their coverage, according to a new report.

On a recent Air Force One trip, Biden dropped back into the media seating area to “criticize the quality and tenor of press coverage of his administration,” Politico’s West Wing Playbook reported Wednesday.

“Joe Biden doesn’t do many off-the-record chats with reporters. So the traveling White House press corps was surprised and intrigued when the president dropped by Air Force One’s press section for one such session with them during a recent trip to the West Coast,” the left-leaning website reported. “But Biden wasn’t just there to field questions. He had his own message to deliver. According to multiple people familiar with the off-the-record session, he used much of his time with reporters to criticize the quality and tenor of press coverage of his administration.”

The sessions present a conundrum for reporters. On Air Force One flights, there is only a single reporter from print media whose job is to report back to other reporters not on the president’s plane exactly what went on. But an off-the-record session is never shared with those other reporters with the dual thought that, first, they may one day be fortunate enough to be in such a session and, second, because the president cannot speak candidly off-the-record if what he says is widely reported.