For a brief moment Tuesday morning, CNN's New Day briefly took on the role of a tabloid magazine, with one guest speculating that Chief of Staff John Kelly is on his way out the door and comparing the West Wing to a "Hunger Game."

Nothing thrills the media more than the narrative of a White House in chaos. According to the latest rumor suggesting discord at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, General Kelly did not appreciate the fact that Ivanka Trump went to the closing ceremonies of the Olympics in Pyeongchang because he “might not have thought that she was qualified.” According to panelist A.B. Stoddard, “we have heard reports for weeks that General H.R. McMaster, the National Security Adviser and Chief of Staff General John Kelly are both perhaps leaving.”

The American people should take these “reports” with a grain of salt. Keep in mind that the media have also reported that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson planned to step down and floated CIA Director Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley as possible replacements. Months after these reports first surfaced, Tillerson still serves as Secretary of State. Based on the media’s abysmal track record with this kind of reporting, Kelly and McMaster will continue to serve in the Trump Administration for the foreseeable future.

Stoddard also suggested that Kelly has deliberately leaked this information so that he will end up losing his job and raised the possibility that “he’s being set up”, adding, “I would put nothing past this West Wing in terms of their Hunger Game.” She then went onto channel her inner Chris Matthews by bringing up the “three-some” that runs the government, consisting of the President, Ivanka, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner. Stoddard suggested that Kelly’s dissatisfaction with the “three-some” indicates that “he’s going to leave.”

In one of his relentless efforts to paint President Trump as a dictator, Matthews compared the Trump family to the Romanovs, the family who ruled Russia for centuries before they were forcibly removed from power at the start of the Russian Revolution. Not surprisingly, Matthews hopes that the Trump family shares the same destiny as the Romanovs.

The media continue to humiliate themselves by completely abandoning the pretense of objectivity and employing the tactics of a gossip magazine. When they don't act as a tabloid, they act as a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and the American left, doing everything they can to paint the Trump Administration and conservatives in an unfavorable light.