Trump Banned the Media. This Time, the Media Struck Back.
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What triggered President Trump’s sudden ban on major news outlets?
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People have stunned the fake news back there. Look at those cameras rocking and rolling.
From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams. Got a lot of cameras going.
Whoa.
And this is the Daily.
Look at all those red lights. Don't worry, I won't say anything bad about your network.
For every day of Donald Trump's presidency,
you better make me look good with that camera.
There's been a camera from one of the major television networks pointed at him.
Every time I speak, they put me on live television. Look at all those cameras you got. You had a lot of television going. It's true. But on
Monday. All of that changed. Today, Zolan Kano Young's and Michael Grinbaum explained the face-off between the president and the press and why the networks turned their cameras off. It's Tuesday, September twenty second. Michael Zolan, turn off your phones. That's how I greet the guests today. I
love that.
The two of you are so busy and on deadline covering the story we're about to talk about. I need to make sure your phones don't buzz in the interview.
My last slack was I'm starting. Goodbye.
All right. Zolan Kano Young's White House correspondent and we should note CNN contributor. Welcome to the show.
Thank you, Rachel.
Michael Grinbaum. Hi. So happy to have you. You are a media reporter. You are also very invested in this story. So, Michael, let's start with you. Tell us what has been happening between the press and the White House.
So seemingly out of the blue on Friday afternoon,
another shakeup in the White House press corps today, press
President Trump decrees that three news outlets, CNN, Politico, and MS Now, are barred, effective immediately, in his words, from entering the White House grounds.
We had no heads up about this. Our reporting shows that White House aides were caught completely flat footed, and by Saturday morning the journalists from those outlets attempted to walk through the security gates like they usually do.
She went through multiple checkpoints as we always do, went to second.
Teams were denied access from the executive branch grounds. We want to predict the exactly.
And so on Monday, we've seen something nearly unprecedented, which is five major television networks banding together and agreeing that they would not cover presidential pool events out of solidarity with CNN. Basically, anytime you turn on CNN or Fox News and you see the president talking live, you are watching the TV pool footage of that event.
And so that's a huge deal.
Uh yes. TV networks have been covering presidents back to the Eisenhower administration, and we've almost never seen this type of collective action where they voluntarily lay down their cameras and do not cover the events for the historic record. What also makes this so intriguing is this is a president addicted to his TV coverage. He's obsessed with how he's portrayed on television. And the idea of Donald Trump not having TV cameras. I have no idea how he's gonna react to that. Aaron Powell
So as Michael mentioned, the president has basically been calling the press the enemy of the people for years now. So why is this happening now?
Well, I think it's important to say that in the lead up to this, the president had faced some significant losses, right? Right. We talk about how his first year in office was dominated basically by him expanding executive power and bending institutions to his will. Well, in the days leading up to this action, you saw some institutions balking at his power, right? And rejecting some of his actions. So the Supreme Court did not side with the president when it came to To his executive order on mail ballots.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What triggered President Trump’s sudden ban on major news outlets?
0:00–7:18
2
How did the White House press pool react to the ban on CNN, MS Now, and Politico?
7:18–12:37
3
Why did the five‑network television pool decide to stop covering the president?
12:37–18:37
4
What legal challenges are the excluded outlets pursuing against the ban?
18:37–24:28
5
How does the ban affect the president’s ability to communicate via TV?
24:28–29:45