Judging by their incessant media coverage of his presidential campaign, journalists across the nation seem to love Donald Trump. But the affection is not mutual, the Republican White House front-runner admitted over the weekend in a TV interview.

"You know, some of the media is among the worst people I've ever met. And I mean a pretty good percentage is really a terrible group of people," the real estate tycoon told CBS's Scott Pelley in a "60 Minutes" interview. "They write lies, they write false stories. They know they're false. It makes no difference. And frankly I don't call it thin skinned, I'm angry."

The former "Apprentice" star also used the exchange to respond to a challenge from Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, who had accused Trump of planning "to go and literally pull [undocumented immigrants] out of their homes and their workplaces, round them up [and] take them across our border," a notion she called "absurd" and "appalling," according to CNN.

The billionaire insisted that his promise to deport up to 11 million immigrants was feasible and anything but a "political stunt," as the former secretary of state had claimed.

"We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way," he said. "I know it doesn't sound nice. But not everything is nice."

On economic matters, meanwhile, Trump on Monday unveiled an overhaul of the tax code and promised to lower taxes for millions of Americans if he were to move into the White House in 2017. His plan would eliminate federal income taxes on individuals earning less than $25,000 and married couples earning less than $50,000, the Associated Press reported.

Experts pointed out that Trump's overhaul would lower the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent and cut the highest income tax rate from 39.6 percent to 25 percent. But the businessman insisted he would not personally benefit from the proposal because it also reduces and eliminates most deductions and loopholes.

"In other words, it's going to cost me a fortune," Trump said at a news conference at Manhattan's Trump Tower.