{"id":910659,"date":"2026-09-26T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/910659\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T18:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:16:11","slug":"trump-escalates-standoff-with-press-in-fresh-attacks-on-ms-now-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/910659\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump escalates standoff with press in fresh attacks on MS NOW, CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on the press on Saturday morning, a day after escalating his standoff with news outlets by blocking CNN from traveling with him<\/a> on Air Force One as he travels to Tennessee this weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy should perpetrators of FAKE NEWS, like CNN and MSDNC, be allowed access to a very sacred place, the White House?\u201d he wrote on Truth Social<\/a>. \u201cDespite my big Election Win, almost 100% of \u2018TRUMP\u2019 coverage is negative, and has been for years!\u201d<\/p>\n

In brief remarks to reporters later that morning, the president denied that he only wanted news outlets that support him in the press pool, telling MS NOW\u2019s Akayla Gardner, \u201cI want real news, not fake news \u2014 like you.\u201d He added, \u201cI love an open, free press. I don\u2019t like the fake press.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump also railed against the media for reporting that Rep. Byron Donalds, who is running for Florida governor with Trump\u2019s endorsement, removed references to the president from his campaign website. (Donalds has said<\/a> that the website changes had been in the works for about two months and that they were meant to emphasize his campaign\u2019s platform.) Trump wrote on Truth Social it should be up to the courts to \u201cstop this totally dishonest form of Politics\u201d and called the media \u201ccorrupt and dishonest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s latest affront to legitimate news outlets follows a week of attempts to bend the media to his will. Unhappy about straightforward coverage of his administration, his sagging approval rating<\/a>, and the impact of his policies, he has tried to freeze out news outlets that don\u2019t deliver the coverage he wants, upending the traditional role of the White House press corps at a pivotal moment, with just over five weeks to go before the midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Republicans have said privately they are bracing for defeat<\/a> on Election Day.<\/p>\n

The president first announced that he would ban MS NOW, CNN and Politico last week, and the outlets\u2019 journalists were denied access to White House grounds<\/a> Saturday. In the days that followed, the three outlets sued Trump and several officials in his administration<\/a> and the TV network pool, which includes Fox News, suspended its coverage of Trump. The White House countered by creating \u201cTrump TV<\/a>,\u201d an online stream of the administration\u2019s so-called \u201cgreatest hits.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tClarissa-Jan Lim is a breaking news reporter for MS NOW. She was previously a senior reporter and editor at BuzzFeed News.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on the press on Saturday morning, a day after escalating his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-910659","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\/910659","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=910659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}