White House press secretary Sean Spicer demanded an apology from The NewYork Times for publishing an article containing eye-opening details aboutPresident Trump’s earliest days in office, even disputing whether thepresident owns a bathrobe.
“That report was so riddled with inaccuracies and lies that they owe thepresident an apology,” Spicer told reporters aboard Air Force One Monday.
“There were just literally blatant factual errors and it’s unacceptable tosee that kind of reporting or so-called reporting.”The article describes Trump’s routine after normal business hours, when hereportedly watches television in a bathrobe or marks up negative newsarticles with a Sharpie.
Spicer took issue with that and other specific anecdotes in the story.
"I don''t think the president owns a bathrobe; he definitely doesn’t wearone,” the spokesman said. “From top to bottom they made up stories thatjust don’t exist. And I think that’s unfortunate.”Soon after Spicer made the remark, old photos of Trump donning a bathrobebegan to circulate on social media.
Trump himself appeared to take issue with the story earlier Monday, tweetingthat the newspaper "writes total fiction" by "making up stories and sources.""We stand by our story," Danielle Rhoades Ha, the newspaper''s vice presidentof communications, said in an email.
The Times also reported Trump had not been fully briefed on an executiveorder he signed giving senior counselor Stephen Bannon a permanent seat onthe National Security Council’s Principal’s Committee.
But Spicer also pushed back on that assertion.
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