Trump Bans ‘Fake News’ CNN, MS NOW, Politico From White House

President Donald Trump announced Friday he is “banning” corporate news outlets CNN, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), and Politico from the White House.

“I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and Politico (The recipients of an illegal and ridiculous $8 Million Dollar subscription, an All Time Record, directly from the United States Government, under Crooked Joe Biden, in order to keep them ‘alive.’ Seems like corruption to me!), from the White House as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” Trump wrote on social media. “Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States of America.”

Trump said that there will be more media outlets to be banned from the White House.

The three corporate outlets are well known for advancing hoaxes and giving unquestioning favorable coverage to Democrats, tantamount to in-kind political donations. Each outlet’s abuses are too many to count, and most of them overlap, but there are some particularly egregious ones.

As Trump noted, Politico fleeced the federal government out of millions of dollars by charging a premium to access its policy-specific content. Meanwhile, the outlet was behind the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story, claiming it was “disinformation,” advanced the Russia collusion hoax, glommed onto the narrative that the Trump campaign’s 2024 Madison Square Garden rally was similar to a Nazi rally, and much more.

In fact, all three outlets did that. It was then-MSNBC that called the gathering a “Nazi” rally, while Politico said it had “racist and vulgar remarks.” CNN said it had “violent and vulgar rhetoric.”

CNN claimed without evidence that Trump called U.S. soldiers killed in action “suckers” and “losers,” and advanced the “very fine people” Charlottesville hoax.

Trump getting shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, was not enough to keep CNN in line, as it downplayed the shooting, initially claiming the rally was merely “interrupted by Secret Service.” The outlet then went further, blaming Trump for the assassination attempts.

CNN was also doing the bidding of disgraced former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci, who fed questions to propagandist Jake Tapper to undermine the Trump administration’s coronavirus response. According to CNN, punishing dissent was in their job description.

CNN’s Tapper is also famous for helping cover up Joe Biden’s obvious mental decline, and then writing a book about it as if he were not complicit. CNN also ran cover for an illegal alien who allegedly tried to run over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent.

Politico may be even more openly corrupt. In an openly pro-abortion move, the outlet took a survey exclusively of people who would advance that narrative, and omitted anyone who might counter it. As The Federalist reported, Politico was reportedly seeking anyone who had “been denied emergency treatment for a miscarriage or pregnancy-related complication,” but left out anyone who had complications or even death from abortion.

That makes some sense though, given the fact that Politico Playbook gets money from abortionist Planned Parenthood via sponsorship of its newsletter. That is one way, among others, that Politico acts as “lobbyist PR” in Washington, D.C., as The Federalist reported.

Politico also advanced the narrative that noncitizen voting never happens, even though it does, and was then forced to admit it. The outlet also runs cover for the judicial coup against the Trump administration and backs Democrat gerrymandering schemes.

MS NOW, for its part, suggested that instead of Charlie Kirk being assassinated, he was actually shot by “a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration.” As The Federalist reported, one of the outlet’s senior analysts then went on to blame Kirk for being assassinated, stating, “I always go back to, ‘hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.’ And I think that’s the environment we’re in, that … you can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place.”

Relatedly, MS NOW had Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on to seemingly mock religion and the children who were victims of a crazed trans-identifying school shooter for praying, stating, “these kids were literally praying, though. … Words are not enough.”

The outlet’s Jen Psaki said something similar, stating, “Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers.”

MS NOW also continues to advance the lie that people claiming to be “transgender” can die if they do not get the “transition” drugs.

Breccan F. Thies is the White House correspondent for The Federalist. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. As an investigative journalist, he previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.