President Donald Trump's spokesman Sean Spicer said Monday that it has been "frustrating" and "demoralizing" for Trump and his team to constantly deal with a negative media narrative that either predicts failure for him or questions his accomplishments. "The narrative, the default narrative is always negative, and it's demoralizing," Spicer said at his first official White House news conference, two days after igniting a battle with the media over the purported size of Trump's inauguration audience. "There's this constant theme to undercut the enormous support that he has."

"I think it's just unbelievably frustrating when you're continually told, 'It's not big enough, it's not good enough ... you can't win,' " Spicer said.

"He's gone out there and defied the odds over and over and over again, and he keeps getting told what he can't do by this narrative that's out there and he exceeds every single time," Spicer said, citing Trump's electoral success after being dismissed by pundits as a long-shot candidate at best when he entered the presidential race in 2015. Spicer also said "there's a constant attempt to undermine his credibility and the movement that he represents." "And it's frustrating for not just him, but I think for so many of us that are trying to work to get this message out."