Trump says he’s banning media outlets, including POLITICO, from White House CNN and MS NOW are the other two outlets Trump announced can no longer send journalists into the White House. President Donald Trump calls on a reporter during a press conference at the White House in Washington after the Supreme Court struck down his sweeping tariffs, Feb. 20, 2026. | Francis Chung/POLITICO President Donald Trump said he would ban reporters from three publications, including POLITICO, from the White House in a post on Truth Social on Friday. Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow,” he wrote.
In addition to POLITICO, Trump said he would block CNN and MS NOW from sending journalists into the White House. It’s the latest escalation in the president’s long-running feud with the media. The president said he was blocking the outlets from accessing the White House “as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” In a statement, POLITICO said the outlet “will continue to fairly report on this White House and future ones.
We will vigorously defend our First Amendment rights against any attempt to restrict them.” “CNN stands fully behind our White House team and their fair and accurate reporting. We have a right under the U.S. Constitution to do that reporting without hindrance or interference from the government,” CNN said in a statement.
Trump has sought in the past to limit reporters from reaching the White House. The White House blocked reporters from The from the Oval Office and Air Force One after the outlet refused to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in its style guide last February. The AP sued the White House to restore its access in the days following.
The White House last October also barred reporters from accessing a West Wing office used by communications staff, and early in Trump’s second term took control over the management of the White House pool rotation, which had long been handled by the White House Correspondents’ Association. Jacqui Heinrich, the WHCA president and a Fox News correspondent, criticized Trump’s move in a statement. Sulzberger blasted Trump as the most “hostile” president to the press in modern history.
Last September, Trump sued the Times for $15 billion, but the lawsuit was quickly quashed by a judge. Trumprefiled that suit in August. Trump attacked POLITICO by saying that “the government under Biden gave them like $8 million to keep them afloat,” reviving a false claim that the White House used to go after the company in 2025 when Trump’s administration canceled subscriptions to the POLITICO Pro policy news service.
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