Navarro urges Trump officials to shut out Fox News

White House advisor Peter Navarro this week urged Trump administration officials to forego appearances on Fox News in light of the network's solidarity with CNN, Politico, and MSNOW over their ban from the White House.

President Donald Trump imposed the ban late last week, citing alleged "fake news" from the networks. Fox News subsequently signed a joint statement in solidarity with the banned channels. Navarro, for his part, suggested that Fox News had developed its own case of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" in recent years, despite the outlet's nominal conservative slant.

"News flash: A network that sells itself to conservatives has blacked out a Republican president and put out a press release about it, arm in arm with CNN. Fox is the more dangerous of the two, because it pretends to wear our colors," Navarro wrote in the Washington Times.

"Second, why not cut Fox off from administration guests?" he suggested. "Not one Cabinet secretary. Not one deputy secretary, administrator or agency head. Not one White House official, National Security Council staffer or press aide. No surrogates, no exclusives, no embargoed drops, no sit-downs, no phoners, no Sunday bookings."

Navarro suggested that he had already been effectively banned from the network and that it made little sense for the administration to assist it by appearing on its programs.

"Fox is not real news. It is CNN with better lighting, a fake slogan and a flag graphic. Stop watching its dangerous drivel," he concluded.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent for Just the News. Follow him on X.