LANGLEY, Virginia President Donald Trump used his first full day in office to visit the spy agency he has spent months disparaging and spent 15 minutes offering rambling, politically oriented remarks that sounded like a campaign speech.

The reason youre my first stop is that, as you know, I have a running war with the media, Trump told some 400 CIA employees gathered Saturday afternoon in the iconic lobby of the building featured in numerous films and television shows.

They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth, the president added. And they made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.

Trump and his choice for CIA director, Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), spent about an hour meeting with top agency officials and touring the building before Trump returned to the lobby with the famous logo designed into the floor.

But then Trump standing in front of a wall inset with 117 chiseled-out stars, each representing an agent who died in the line of duty delivered a series of grievances and boasts:

• He falsely claimed the media had reported that his inaugural crowd was smaller than it was: It looked like a million, a million and a half people, he said.

• And criticized reporters for saying he had removed a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office, when he hadnt: I would never do that, because I have great respect for Dr. Martin Luther King.

• About Democrats , for not immediately confirming Pompeo on Friday: Theyre doing little political games with me.

• About his own intellect, based on his uncle who had taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: They say, Is Donald Trump an intellectual? Trust me. Im, like, a smart person.

Trump told the group of nonpolitical staff the agency is rare in that it has only a handful of political appointees that he was certain they had supported him.

Probably almost everybody in this room voted for me, he said.

Trump also repeated a frequent campaign falsehood that he opposed the 2003 Iraq invasion before it happened while advocating for taking oil from Iraq . He also repeated a common campaign idea that the U.S. military has not been able to win wars of late.

We were always winning things in this country. Wed win with trade. Wed win with wars, Trump said. At a certain age, I remember hearing from one of my instructors the United States has never lost a war. And then, after that, its like we havent won anything. We dont win anymore.