Trump maintains his challenge against the press despite the judicial warning. This Saturday he banned CNN journalists from accessing Air Force One to cover a presidential trip to Tennessee. The new veto prevents CNN reporters from reporting on the Republican president's activity for the pool, the consortium of the five major television networks, which record the images and report for the rest of the media.
At the same time, he has attacked CNN and MS Now through his Truth social network. “Why should those who spread FAKE NEWS, such as CNN and MSDNC, be allowed access to a place as sacred as the White House?” he wrote after last Thursday the federal judge of the District of Columbia ordered the Administration to immediately return the accreditations to the journalists of these media and Politico banned by Trump. ”Despite my great electoral victory, almost 100% of the coverage about “TRUMP” is negative, and has been for years!“, he wrote this Saturday on his social platform, where a legion of admirers of the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement follow him without any opposition, nor any comments that criticize or question him.
Since just over six in the morning, he has published around thirty messages on his social network, Truth, to boast about his reception for Chinese President Xi Jinping, attack his political rivals or maintain his crusade against the media. "FAKE NEWS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!! IT HAS LASTED TOO LONG, AT A TREMENDOUS COST TO OUR COUNTRY," he wrote in one of the messages days after a federal judge forced him to lift the veto against journalists from CNN, MS Now and Politico because he does not like the way they report.
No sign of presidential activity
A CNN crew was scheduled to cover Trump's trip to Tennessee to attend a college football game. The reporters from the channel founded by Ted Turner were in charge, as part of the pool, of covering the president's trip to later share the images with the rest of the television networks, but on Friday night the White House excluded them from the official coverage. The Administration has decided that no other media will replace CNN, so there will be no joint television coverage of this Saturday's trip.
Local television or other networks will be able to record images of the president upon his arrival in Tennessee.
The decision marks the Trump administration's latest attack on critical media outlets. The president has targeted CNN, Politico and Ms Now, although since the beginning of his second term he has been defiant and threatening towards the media. He has insulted and belittled journalists and threatened their companies with million-dollar lawsuits because he does not like some questions or the focus of the information.
Tension between Trump and the media escalated last week. On Saturday he announced via Truth that he was banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. The three news organizations did not take long to file a lawsuit against the decision of the Republican president, who does not usually take criticism well.
District of Columbia Federal Judge Timothy J. Kelly convened a hearing Friday to hear the parties' arguments. The Department of Justice came up with a new justification for the presidential veto, claiming that it was for reasons of national security. A thesis that did not convince the judge. A few hours later, he ordered the federal government to immediately return the journalists' accreditations so that they could regain the access they had before the presidential veto.
