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U.S. President Donald Trump announced an immediate White House ban on a number of news outlets on Friday, including CNN.<\/p>\n
Trump, in a social media post, said MS NOW and Politico are also barred, adding, “other fake news media outlets to follow.”<\/p>\n
“Media Outlets shouldn\u2019t be able to constantly write or report fiction and lies when they\u2019re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America,” he wrote.<\/p>\n
In a statement, CNN said it stands behind its “fair and accurate” reporting, and said they have a constitutional right to work without government interference.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, CNN \u2060reporter Brian Stelter said on air that the outlet remains at the White House and is working as normal.<\/p>\n
In its own statement, Politico said it would “continue to fairly report on this White House and future ones. We will vigorously defend our First Amendment rights against any attempt to restrict them.”<\/p>\n
U.S. \u2060Rep. Frank Pallone, the lead Democrat on the House energy and commerce committee, said Trump’s action was censorship.<\/p>\n
“If Trump thinks banning media outlets from the White House will make his presidency seem less like a failure, he’s delusional,” Pallone said. <\/p>\n
Trump beef with press<\/p>\n
The ban is the administration’s latest test of constitutional First Amendment protections.<\/p>\n
It follows Trump’s decision in February 2025 to keep journalists with The Associated Press out of the Oval Office, Air Force One and other locations too small for a full press corps, in retaliation for the news outlet’s decision not to follow his lead in changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press filed suit and the case is ongoing. <\/p>\n
Trump has long bristled at news coverage he sees as unfavourable to him and has a history of filing lawsuits against news organizations and lashing out at individual reporters in person or over social media.<\/p>\n
Since returning to office, Trump has pursued legal action against the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC and other news outlets. His administration is also involved in a long-simmering confrontation involving ABC over renewal of its broadcast licences. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-901101","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\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}