White House TV pool won’t cover Trump after press ban: CNN
US President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 18, 2026.
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The White House television pool that covers events by President Donald Trump on a rotating basis will stop covering those events because of the White House’s ban of CNN from acting as a member of that pool, CNN reported Monday.
CNN was barred from covering Trump as the designated TV pooler on Monday, when the president is visiting New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
The decision by other members of the TV pool to no longer cover Trump comes as CNN, along with MS NOW and Politico, said they are filing a lawsuit against Trump to overturn a ban of those three media outlets from the White House.
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