{"id":629412,"date":"2026-09-19T09:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629412\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:06:17","slug":"trump-bans-cnn-and-other-major-newsrooms-from-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629412\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump bans CNN and other major newsrooms from the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-updated-redesign article-updated-redesign-\" title=\"Friday 18 Sep 2026, 9:10 PM\">\n<p>                            LAST UPDATE<br \/>\n                            |<br \/>\n                            12 hrs ago\n                        <\/p>\n<p>US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has said he is banning news outlets CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, accusing them without specifics of reporting \u201cfiction and lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump added that \u201cother Fake News Media Outlets to follow\u201d but did not say which.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW\u2026 and Politico\u2026 from the White House as a result of their constant \u2018reporting\u2019 FAKE NEWS!\u201d Trump said on his Truth Social network.<\/p>\n<p>Trump did not say what had prompted the bar but added that \u201cmedia 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789808777_579_.JPEG\"  alt=\"Screenshot_20260918_211815_Chrome\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            Trump declared the ban on his Truth Social platform on Friday\n<\/p>\n<p>It is extremely rare for US presidents to bar news outlets from the White House altogether, although Trump banned a CNN reporter in his first term and Richard Nixon put restrictions on the Washington Post for its reporting on the Watergate scandal.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump\u2019s second administration has put stricter controls on reporters, including taking control of which journalists can cover events as part of the \u201cpool\u201d admitted to tight spaces such as the Oval Office and Air Force One.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Trump barred The Associated Press from some events because of the news agency\u2019s decision to continue referring to the \u201cGulf of Mexico\u201d \u2014 and not the \u201cGulf of America\u201d as decreed by Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/home&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1789837365816000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1kf_6eEy1_ns0Sk_MEi7gX\">\u2013 \u00a9 AFP2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAST UPDATE | 12 hrs ago US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has said he is banning news outlets CNN,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11503,969,42,43,13205,168952,40,38,41,39,3591],"class_list":["post-629412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-no-entry","tag-politico","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}