Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
President Donald Trump on Sept. 18 said he has banned three news outlets from the White House.
Trump said on Truth Social that he was, effective immediately, banning CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House “as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!”
The president added:
“Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America. Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow.”
MS Now and Politico did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
CNN could not be reached.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for more details regarding which stories or posts the president was referring to.
Trump routed them during a post-tweet press conference:
“What I do ask is just a semblance of truth. CNN is fake news. MSNOW is fake news. They’re fake news. They know it. They’re putting there for a reason.”
“Politico was bailed out by our government from going out of business.”
🔥 President Trump is now LAYING THE HAMMER after the Fake News WHINED that he blocked CNN/MSNOW/Politico from the White House
“What I do ask is just a semblance of truth. CNN is fake news. MSNOW is fake news. They’re fake news. They know it. They’re putting there for a reason.”… pic.twitter.com/sxUtdqwCOQ
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 18, 2026
Trump added that “I don’t want them in my office”, stating that he will take this as far he can including “we’ll be suing these people too.”
He concluded by noting that “there may be other media outlet bans to follow.”
The Fake News are Democrat operatives pretending to be journalists.
The toughest question the media ever asked Joe Biden was his favorite ice cream flavor! pic.twitter.com/PMNXrAtRZO
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 18, 2026
Trump previously banned The Associated Press from the Oval Office and other spaces after the outlet declined to change its stylebook to reflect the president’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
A federal judge entered an injunction against the ban, determining that it violated the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment because it discriminated based on The Associated Press’s viewpoint.
But an appeals court in mid-2025 partially stayed the injunction. The court allowed Trump to ban the outlet from the Oval Office, Air Force One, and some other spaces, concluding that “these restricted presidential spaces are not First Amendment fora opened for private speech and discussion” and that the White House “therefore retains discretion to determine, including on the basis of viewpoint, which journalists will be admitted.
Judges also ruled that Trump could not ban reporters from the White House’s East Room.
“The identified harms are less clear with respect to the East Room, which does not share the hallmarks of spaces like the Oval Office,” the majority said.
At present, however, there is no White House press secretary and the usual press briefings are somewhat disrupted. The most likely immediate outcome is that the administration attempts to remove those networks from the presidential and vice presidential pool rotations.
