On Truth Social, Trump wrote that he is closing White House access to these outlets and said that the media should not “constantly write or report fiction and lies” when covering the U.S. president, his administration, or the United States.
He separately lashed out at MS NOW and Politico. MS NOW, according to him, “recently changed its name from MSNBC because of a lack of viewers and trust”, although the channel changed its name in November 2025 when Comcast’s cable assets were spun off into a separate company, Versant, and after that lost the right to use NBC brands.
Trump called Politico the recipient of an “illegal and absurd $8 million subscription — an absolute record — directly from the U.S. government under crooked Joe Biden”. In fact, that $8 million was the total spending by all federal agencies on subscriptions to Politico services, primarily Politico Pro and E&E News, for 2024, and the government also paid for similar subscriptions to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
The White House did not immediately comment on the president’s post, CNBC reported.
This is not the first conflict between the Trump administration and the press. In February 2025, Associated Press journalists were no longer allowed into the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One, or to small events after the agency refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the “American” Gulf.
AP filed a lawsuit, the case is ongoing, and an appeals court allowed the White House to keep these restrictions in place; at the same time, the administration stripped the White House Correspondents’ Association of its right to organize the press pool. Since the start of his second term, Trump has also been suing The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, and other media outlets.
The administration is also exerting pressure on broadcasters through regulators. On September 10, Jimmy Kimmel said that the Federal Communications Commission had threatened him, his show, and ABC over “ordinary, traditional editorial decisions”, so the interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico aired not on television but on YouTube; in August 2026, ABC filed a lawsuit against the FCC, calling reviews of broadcast licenses a “campaign of revenge”.
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