White House spokesman: Media choose palace intrigue over policy nine times out of 10

A White House spokesman said Sunday that media outlets are “overly fixated” on the Russia probe and other stories that he deemed “palace intrigue.” 

“If given the choice, the media has policy or palace intrigue, they take palace intrigue nine times out of 10,” deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said on Fox News. 

“The coverage on this president has been completely negative,” he added.

Gidley acknowledged that other news is covered, but “not nearly the way in which these salacious things are covered.” 

.@hogangidley45: “They never mess up in favor of @POTUS. Every misreported fact is always bad to @POTUS. It never helps us out.” #MediaBuzz pic.twitter.com/fcZvJcIQy6

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 20, 2018

{mosads}Fox News host Howard Kurtz asked Gidley whether he thought it was “sloppiness” or intentional when several outlets last week reported that President Trump said immigrants in the country illegally “aren’t people. They’re animals.”

The president’s remark was made in response to a comment about MS-13 gang members.

“They never mess up in favor of the president,” Gidley said. “Every misreported fact is always bad to the president. It never helps us out.”

Trump has repeatedly railed against media outlets for publishing stories that are critical of his administration, dubbing such reports “fake news.”

Earlier this month, he suggested pulling media credentials to the White House because of an abundance of “negative” coverage. Last week, he and other White House officials condemned leaks to the media, calling leakers “traitors.”