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_Published 2026-09-18. President Donald Trump announced on Friday he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, setting up a new test of the First Amendment’s protection of a free press as his Administration moves to punish news organizations whose coverage he dislikes._


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## Transcript

Earlier today, you posted that you intend to ban CNN, Politico and miss now from the white House. Yeah. Every president takes an oath to uphold the Constitution, which includes the First Amendment. I do too. How do you justify. Much more so than you? Because they're fake news. You get so tired of reading and seeing fake news. During this ban. Now, is there a particular reason? No reason? No. Just because. No, no. It's it's really just cumulative stories over the last two years. You get sick of it. Mr. president, to put a finer point on it, though, how is this action legal and constitutional considering the First Amendment?

Well, I'll just answer it again. I'll say it the same way. I don't think somebody should be allowed to come in and write fake stories. They're fake news, and that's why they have no credibility. In the first administration. You tried a similar ban against CNN and it didn't survive a court challenge. What makes you think that this. Well we'll see. I mean, it didn't we didn't have to take it too far because the reporter that you're talking about discredited himself. He became a joke. So he no longer was very effective. So it didn't matter. No. But I think it's good. I think it's good to point it out whether it survives or doesn't.

I mean, I don't think a court should allow depends on the judge. You get to be honest with you. I don't think that a court should allow fake news to be written day after day after day. I think that somebody has a right to keep them away if they're going to write false stories all the time.

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