{"id":905712,"date":"2026-09-26T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905712\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:04:10","slug":"white-house-blocks-cnn-from-air-force-one-in-latest-escalation-with-news-media-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905712\/","title":{"rendered":"White House blocks CNN from Air Force One in latest escalation with news media | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White House has blocked CNN from traveling aboard Air Force One on Saturday, impeding its TV press pool duties in the latest escalation of the administration\u2019s battle<\/a> with the news media.<\/p>\n

CNN had been scheduled to fly with Donald Trump to Tennessee for a college football game, the network said on Friday<\/a>. The White House confirmed CNN\u2019s exclusion when it did not list the network on guidance sent to the press corps regarding Trump\u2019s schedule for Saturday.<\/p>\n

CNN\u2019s exclusion from Air Force One was first reported by the Washington Post<\/a>. The White House did not immediately return the Guardian\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

The incident comes a week after Trump, a vocal critic of what he deems the \u201cfake news media\u201d, revoked<\/a> White House access for CNN, MS Now and Politico, citing unfavorable reports about his presidency.<\/p>\n

\u201cMedia Outlets shouldn\u2019t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES,\u201d Trump wrote then on Truth Social, vowing that similar action would be taken against other outlets.<\/p>\n

The extraordinary move prompted swift backlash from the White House press pool, who suspended their video coverage of Trump in protest.<\/p>\n

The press pool is a rotating group of journalists charged with covering presidential travel and disseminating written and multimedia reports to news outlets that may not be present at a given White House event. Since the beginning of Trump\u2019s second administration in 2025, the White House has decided<\/a> which outlets cover the president via the pool each day, a task previously coordinated by the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n

In a joint statement Monday, the White House television pool said: \u201cThe public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a subsequent lawsuit<\/a>, CNN, MS Now and Politico argued the White House ban was a violation of the first amendment.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Department of Justice\u2019s attorneys suggested the ban was in the interest of national security, pointing at media reports involving \u201csensitive\u201d and \u201cclassified\u201d information.<\/p>\n

The US district judge Timothy Kelly sided<\/a> with the outlets, ordering the Trump administration to restore their White House access.<\/p>\n

CNN, MS Now and Politico\u2019s journalists sought to enter the White House on Thursday morning, but were not granted entry until midday.<\/p>\n

Hours later, CNN\u2019s editorial team along with an MS Now reporter were blocked from covering the state dinner commemorating Chinese president Xi Jinping\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House has blocked CNN from traveling aboard Air Force One on Saturday, impeding its TV press…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-905712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}