Trump says he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Fri­day that he was ban­ning CNN, MSNOW and Politi­co from the White House due to what he called un­fa­vor­able cov­er­age, and threat­ened that more such me­dia pro­hi­bi­tions could be com­ing — of­fer­ing his ad­min­is­tra­tion’s lat­est test of con­sti­tu­tion­al First Amend­ment pro­tec­tions guar­an­tee­ing the free­dom of the press.

Trump has long bris­tled at news cov­er­age he main­tains casts him in a neg­a­tive light, and has a his­to­ry of fil­ing law­suits against news or­ga­ni­za­tions, while lash­ing out at in­di­vid­ual re­porters in per­son or over so­cial me­dia.

The move fol­lows the pres­i­dent’s de­ci­sion, in Feb­ru­ary 2025, to keep As­so­ci­at­ed Press jour­nal­ists out of the Oval Of­fice, Air Force One and oth­er events 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.