The White House once again bans CNN from the presidential plane despite a court order

This Saturday morning, the White House openly defied an order from a federal judge by once again vetoing the CNN network, preventing its journalists from accessing the presidential plane as part of the 'pool' or group of reporters who follow the president every day, on a trip to Tennessee. The decision means that there will be no graphic coverage this weekend, since no one will occupy the place during the college football game attended by Donald Trump.

Just a week ago, Trump announced that he was revoking the White House entry cards (hard pass in local parlance) of CNN, MS NOW and Politico employees, accusing them of disinformation. The companies issued a joint statement and went to court. By chance, the judge in charge of the case was the same one who, during his first term, had already revoked the withdrawal of another CNN journalist's credentials. The court ruling told the White House that it could not restrict access on a whim, and a few days later, policymakers were allowed back inside.

During that time, the rest of the major television networks, including Fox, more aligned with the president's agenda and vision, boycotted coverage. The White House 'pool' is a group of journalists from the written press, radio, television and agencies that follows the president 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Whether in Washington, the US or the rest of the planet. Historically, the White House correspondents' association itself designed the rotations, but now Trump's team has assumed the role, incorporating related media outlets with little experience with the institution, but without causing problems for the rest. With exceptions.

First, Trump wanted to expel journalists from the Associated Press agency because the outlet chose not to comply with his orders to no longer use the expression Gulf of Mexico and start calling it the Gulf of America. A judge stopped him. And now it is repeated with the networks and especially CNN, with which it has a particularly bad relationship.

The latest example was seen this morning when the Administration has acted interpreting that the judge's order requires them to return the credentials and allow journalists to enter the White House, and even facilitate their coverage when they are in Washington, as happened on Friday when CNN was in charge of sharing the signal with the other networks during the visit of the Chinese and American presidents to the National Archives. But what the order does not protect is access to Air Force One, the presidential plane, for travel.

In any case, the Republican leader questions the main one. "Why should those who spread FAKE NEWS, such as CNN and MSDNC, be allowed access to a place as sacred as the White House? Despite my great electoral victory, almost 100% of the coverage about "TRUMP" is negative, and has been for years!" Shortly after, he insisted in his particular style: "THE SPREAD OF FAKE NEWS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!! IT HAS LASTED TOO LONG, AT A TREMENDOUS COST FOR OUR COUNTRY."

A judge has given media outlets until Monday to file a request for a preliminary injunction, which would suspend Trump's promised ban for a longer period of time.