"James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!", Trump said in a tweet.
Comey, who was leading an inquiry into possible collusion between Trump election campaign officials and Russia, was fired on Tuesday.
Trump has since insisted he was told by Comey that he was not under investigation, Fox News reported.
The US President said he had been told twice by Comey over dinner and once over the phone that he was not a target of the inquiry.
"I had a dinner with him, he wanted to have dinner because he wanted to stay on," Trump said.
"...And I said, 'I'll consider we'll see what happens'... And at that time he told me, 'You're not under investigation,' which I knew anyway," said Trump.
Trump added: "In one case I asked him... He said: 'You are not under investigation'."
The US President, speaking to NBC News on Thursday, gave his first in-depth remarks since the surprise ousting of Comey earlier this week.
"Look he's a showboat, he's a grandstander," Trump said.
"The FBI has been in turmoil. You know that I know that. Everybody knows that. You take a look at the FBI a year ago, it was in virtual turmoil -- less than a year ago. It hasn't recovered from that."
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