The White House has gone on the offensive after a New York Times report painted a picture of a chaotic first couple of weeks for Donald Trump's presidency.

But while the article describes the "bungled rollout" of the executive order on immigration and "a flurry of ... embarrassments", it was the assertion that Mr Trump wears a bathrobe that seemed to particularly irk the administration.

Calling it the "epitome of fake news", Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, said: "I don’t think the president owns a bathrobe. He definitely doesn’t wear one."