Playboy White House reporter Brian Karem complained about the Trump administration’s treatment of journalists and “fake news,” saying during an interview Tuesday night on MSNBC that journalists are “bullied and browbeaten every day, and I pretty much have had enough of it.”

Karem spoke on the network hours after he was engaged in a particularly heated, televised exchange with White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during the Tuesday briefing. Sanders noted that CNN had been forced to retract a recent and unsubstantiated Russia collusion story that claimed President Donald Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci was entangled with a Russian investment fund. Sanders said that Trump is “frustrated” by the “constant barrage of fake news” originating from biased media outlets and called the collusion narrative a “hoax.”

But Karem was having none of that, and he told Sanders to her face during the briefing that she was “inflaming everyone.”

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“I can’t take it anymore,” Karem told MSNBC. “For the government to sit there and undermine essentially what [are] very essential checks and balances in the system, it’s disheartening, it’s unnerving.”

“She took the opportunity first thing off the bat to go after the media,” Karem added. “She was trying to go after CNN specifically and the media in general. We’ve been called ‘the enemy of the people’ from that White House. We’ve been told that we’re ‘fake news.'”

Trump launched a Twitter attack Tuesday on “fake news” outlets, saying, “So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & ABC? What about the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost? They are all Fake News!”

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On Wednesday, Trump commented on “fake news” once more, tweeting, “The failing @nytimes writes false story after false story about me. They don’t even call to verify the facts of a story. A Fake News Joke!”

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The Playboy reporter said the White House’s hostility against the “fake news” media is “a childish maneuver” that is like “what my kids used to do.”

“We are bullied and browbeaten every day, and I pretty much have had enough of it,” Karem said. “We can’t take the bullying anymore. It’s undermining the fourth estate — it’s undermining the first amendment.”

“He’s inflaming the very people who got him into office. He’s speaking to his base, and he’s trying to undermine the very essence of what we do,” Karem added. “And that’s not good for this republic. It’s not good for this country.”

The Playboy reporter, however, seemed all too keen to bask in his newfound stardom Tuesday, nearly a week after White House press secretary Sean Spicer told “The Laura Ingraham Show” that many briefings have been moved off-camera because reporters “want to become YouTube stars and ask some snarky question that’s been asked eight times.”

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During Tuesday’s briefing, Karem piped in while Sanders was criticizing CNN and other biased outlets, saying, “What you just did is inflammatory to people all over the country who look at it and say, ‘See, once again, the president is right and everybody out here is fake media.'”

“And everybody in this room is only trying to do their job,” Karem said. “We’re here to ask you questions. You’re here to provide the answers.”

Sanders pushed back, insisting, “I disagree completely … If anything has been inflamed, it’s the dishonesty that often takes place by the news media. And I think it is outrageous for you to accuse me of inflaming a story when I was simply trying to respond to his question.”

She added that the American people “deserve better from our news media” and urged the reporters to cover Trump’s accomplishments and policies with as much veracity as they pursue the Russia collusion narrative and other negative stories.