Has Trump's war on the press just spectacularly backfired?
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What is the background of Trump’s long‑term war on the press?
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It is not difficult to find cases of Trump suing journalists. And I don't mean this time round. I mean literally, you go back to the 80s.
Donald Trump has posted this morning uh on Truth Social, and this is what he said. The White House is not instituting an assault on the free press, something which I cherish. It's instituting an assault on the fake news.
with Trump, it's what he's done in a sort of continuum of just sowing distrust. You know, it's always been about enemies of the people, it's always been which is obviously taken from, you know, Nazi Germany and and and before even. Has the American
media to some extent brought this on itself By the way that it has behaved
in
the second term.
All right, the breaking news diesel prices are at a record. Republicans are trailing in midterm polling, and the president is banning reporters from the White House.
this morning and their third story is they're suing the president over a ban on their reporters being allowed into the White House.
Trump has been bullying the media for decades, since before he even got into politics. But is he doing it now out of desperation? Welcome to the news agents.
The news agents.
It's John. It's Maitless. And it's not just CNN that Trump has banned from the White House. It's uh MS Now, which is uh kind of a similar sort of T V station to uh CNN and Politico. Um and he said he's banning them 'cause they're fake news. Now, last week it's worth remembering that Trump wanted the Supreme Court to approve his Changes to mail-in ballots, and the Supreme Court had the temerity to say, bugger off. And then he wanted the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, and they raised them. And he wanted a federal judge to say he could have his name on the Kennedy Centre. And the federal judge said, No, you can't. And so Donald Trump, out of desperation at having lost three times, does what a desperate man does.
He lets Lashes out and he's lashed out and tried to ban these three new organ news organizations from the White House.
Yeah. So I guess the first thing you have to understand about America is that this will not get past the constitution. The First Amendment prevents Trump from doing this. And that's why within the space of twenty four, forty-eight hours, all three, CNN, MSNow and Politico, have filed their First Amendment lawsuit to restore their access. In other words, they just say, shut up, out the way, we're going straight to the courts. And as of this moment, the courts are still managing just about to hold it together to deliver some uh readings and some hearings that are going against Trump. But I guess uh there is something that you kind of need to understand about the way this works, and It is not difficult to find cases of Trump suing journalists.
And I don't mean this time round. I mean literally, you go back to the eighties, he was doing it. You go back to the nineties, he was doing it. When he was a businessman in New York, he took against somebody, quite often women, and just decided to pursue them in the courts to try and shut them down. throw legal weight against them and say, You're not allowed to do this. He did it in the early days of his second term when he tried to ban Associated Press, what was their crime, I think they failed to call the Gulf of Mexico, um, the Gulf of America and We have seen it I I think consistently in the way that Trump has taken on ABC, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times.
Why did Trump ban CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House?
And tried to essentially shut them down, right? He has decided whether it was an ABC interview that he tried to get money from, whether it was the reporting from the Wall Street Journal over the Epstein Birthday Book, whether it was the New York Times reporting I think that still stands, doesn't it? I mean there's still cases There are still
cases going on. There are a lot of cases going on. And of course the case against the BBC. And when I was out in Washington in the first term, there was a time when the BBC was sort of banned uh from He tried to ban because he said that we're not on an approved list of groups that could go in to a briefing with the press secretary and was saying, hang on, what do you mean?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the background of Trump’s long‑term war on the press?
0:02–4:07
2
Why did Trump ban CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House?
4:07–8:30
3
How did the three outlets respond with First Amendment lawsuits?
8:30–14:17
4
What does the media’s collective refusal to cover Trump’s New York visit mean?
14:17–18:22
5
Why is the German Chancellor calling his election results a ‘disaster’?
18:22–22:48
6
How is the rise of the AfD affecting Germany’s centre‑right parties?
22:48–27:07
7
What impact are global diesel shortages and high fuel prices having on the U.S. and Europe?
27:07–31:03
8
What are the key takeaways about Trump’s desperation and the backlash he faces?
31:03–36:29
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