Rolling Back Trump

1. Sep 18, 2026Barred CNN, MS NOW, and Politico reporters from the White House over their coverage and revoked their press passes, shutting them out on the day of Xi Jinping's state visit. Source ↗
2. Sep 21, 2026CNN, MS NOW and Politico sued, saying the ban violates the First and Fifth Amendments. Source ↗
3. Sep 24, 2026U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered their access restored for 14 days while the case proceeds, finding they were likely to win because their passes were revoked without due process. The reporters returned that afternoon. Source ↗
4. Sep 26, 2026The White House left CNN off Air Force One for Trump's trip to a college football game in Tennessee and gave the slot to Real America's Voice, which is not in the network pool. Kelly's order dealt with passes to the White House grounds and said nothing directly about Air Force One. Source ↗
5. Oct 5, 2026The White House barred Politico from Air Force One on its day as print pool reporter, for Trump's trip to Nebraska. A White House spokesperson called Air Force One travel "a privilege not a right." CNN reports it has repeatedly barred CNN from the plane on its TV pool days. Source ↗
6. Oct 10, 2026The Justice Department's Antitrust Division said it is investigating whether the five-network press pool's days-long halt to covering Trump last month, done in protest of the CNN/MS NOW/Politico ban, violated antitrust law as an improper "group boycott." Source ↗
7. Oct 10, 2026DOJ spokesperson Emily Covington said, "The Antitrust Division is simply investigating to determine whether these news organizations have violated the antitrust laws." Source ↗
8. Oct 13, 2026U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly issued a preliminary injunction, replacing his earlier temporary restraining order, barring the Trump administration from enforcing the Sept. 18 hard-pass revocation while the lawsuit proceeds. The order does not cover Air Force One or Oval Office access, where CNN and Politico continue to be excluded. Source ↗
9. Oct 13, 2026Kelly found the outlets likely to win their First Amendment and due-process claims. He wrote, "There is practically nothing national security-related in the record ... to which the Court can defer," and that Trump "likely banned Plaintiffs from the White House because he believes that their reporting is generally inaccurate and biased against him." Source ↗
10. Oct 14, 2026The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal of Kelly's ruling with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which does not pause the injunction, so the outlets keep their access for now. A White House spokesperson called the outlets' coverage "Fake News" and said they are "completely capable of reporting from directly outside." Source ↗
11. Oct 19, 2026CNN attorney Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. wrote to the Justice Department that the network has been denied Air Force One access no fewer than four times since September -- for the U.N. General Assembly trip, a football game in Knoxville, Tennessee, a trip to Texas and Oklahoma, and, this month, a trip to Georgia and Florida. Source ↗
12. Oct 19, 2026Boutrous said this undercuts CNN's 45 years of "uninterrupted access to the Oval Office and Air Force One," and warned CNN "will have no choice but to return to the court" if it continues, giving the White House two days to respond. Source ↗
13. Oct 20, 2026After Independent reporter Andrew Feinberg questioned him about a whistleblower proposal and then his golf courses, Trump told him, "I don't know who the hell you are, but you better be careful," then "What's wrong with you? Are you a sick person?" Vance called the question "fundamentally dishonest" and posted the exchange online. Source ↗
14. Oct 21, 2026The White House told Feinberg he would no longer serve as print pool reporter for Trump's Oct. 22 trip to Sioux City, Iowa, notifying him by unsigned email the evening before. WHCA President Jacqui Heinrich called it retaliation: "That is retaliation." Source ↗
15. Oct 26, 2026Six citizens who rely on White House reporting, including former Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth and Brooklyn Technical High School civics teacher Peter Schmidt-Nowara, sued Trump, chief of staff Susie Wiles, communications director Steven Cheung and Secret Service Director Sean M. Curran in federal court in New York. Source ↗
16. Oct 26, 2026 · LatestThe suit, brought by the Knight First Amendment Institute and Yale Law School's Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic, argues the outlet-access policy harms the public's own right to know, not just the banned outlets, and seeks a declaration that the policy is unconstitutional and an injunction against its enforcement. Source ↗

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