Washington Free Beacon staff writer Elizabeth Harrington said Monday on Fox Business that the media spin stories to hurt President Donald Trump "just because it's Trump," even if the news is beneficial to him.

Harrington noted to host Charles Payne that, after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced over the weekend that his country would halt its nuclear and missile tests ahead of a planned summit with Trump, the media praised Kim's negotiating rather than Trump's diplomacy.

"They can't give Trump credit for anything," Harrington said of the media. "If this was [former President Barack] Obama, he would be getting the [Nobel] Peace Prize."

"It is such a detriment to the profession where everything is now spun in a way that can hurt Trump just because it's Trump," Harrington added later in the interview. "Anytime there is news that should be pretty beneficial to Trump—whether it is this North Korea news or the [James] Comey memos, him leaking classified information and being under review—you have the media saying, ‘Oh, Trump is now trying to spin this in his favor and Trump is trying to spin North Korea halting nuclear tests in his favor.' It's the media that's doing spinning, which we've seen again and again and again, regardless of what the issue is. And I think that's unfortunate."