A White House spokesman called President Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE a "real-life Superman" on Saturday while blaming Senate Democrats for a failure to pass a GOP-backed government funding measure the previous night.

During an appearance on "Fox & Friends," deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley dismissed a Democratic National Committee statement blaming the shutdown on Trump's "chaotic" Republican Party.

“Nobody is buying that," Gidley responded.

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"Look, you guys are sitting with a former TV Superman in Dean Cain,” he said of the former actor co-hosting the show. "I'm working for a real-life Superman over my shoulder in Donald Trump."

Trump has blasted Democrats over the shutdown, accusing them in several tweets of caring more about immigrants in the country illegally and politics than about the American people.

“He stood up to the American people last night. He did not bend. He did not break," Gidley said of Trump's refusal to have a stopgap government funding bill include protections for those under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

"They don't want a solution for DACA, they don't want a solution for anything. The only thing they want to do is run against this president."