{"id":856829,"date":"2026-09-22T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856829\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:34:11","slug":"trump-surprised-by-presence-of-cnn-at-united-nations-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856829\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Surprised By Presence Of CNN At United Nations General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhen President Donald Trump<\/a> arrived at the United Nations<\/a> on Tuesday and went over to speak to reporters, he noted the presence of Kaitlan Collins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe CNN<\/a> anchor and correspondent was there via a UN credential, despite the president\u2019s ban on the network<\/a> from the White House and the TV pool.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m surprised that CNN is here covering me,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t be here. You should not. You should not be here covering me. You said you weren\u2019t going to cover me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCNN did not say that it would not cover Trump. After it was restricted from the network TV pool rotation, the four other networks \u2014 including ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and Fox News \u2014 said that they would suspend their participation, an act of solidarity.<\/p>\n

\n\tCollins had asked Trump about polling that showed two-thirds of Americans don\u2019t think the U.S. is winning the war with Iran. The president is at the UN today to speak to the annual General Assembly.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: CNN, MS NOW And Politico Journalists Denied White House Entry; Colleagues Condemn Trump\u2019s Ban<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking with CNN anchor Kate Bolduan, Collins noted that all the reporters gathered for Trump\u2019s entrance were credentialed by the UN, not the White House.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSince technically CNN should be serving as the pool representatives with the president today, but given he removed us from our assignment and our ability to be able to do so, we are not traveling with the president here to the United Nations,\u201d Collins said.<\/p>\n

\n\tCNN, MS Now and Politico filed suit Monday<\/a> against Trump and other administration figures, alleging that the president\u2019s ban on the outlets violates the First Amendment and the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process. A federal judge has set a hearing for Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\n\tCollins told Bolduan that CNN \u201cnever said we were not going to cover the president. It was actually the president who tried to stop us from being able to cover him, certainly, the way that we were doing beforehand. Obviously, that\u2019s being fought in the courts. We will continue to cover the president and his speech, and as he meets with world leaders today, just not with a TV camera from one of the five major networks in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFox News and the BBC carried the Trump speech live, and MS Now telecast the first portion of it, while CNN monitored for developments and featured other news programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When President Donald Trump arrived at the United Nations on Tuesday and went over to speak to reporters,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,15284,12,5109,104242,10815,3,4870,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-856829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-electionline","tag-kaitlan-collins","tag-media","tag-news","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}