WASHINGTON (PNN) - September 19, 2026 - Following through on his promise, journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were denied access to the White House grounds on Sept. 19 after President Donald J. Trump announced a ban targeting the outlets.
Akayla Gardner, a White House correspondent for Marxist biased MS NOW, said that her press pass was revoked at the third gate she passed through to enter the grounds on Saturday morning.
“Once I was inside where we have magnetometers, I attempted to scan my badge, which we have to do to be able to get into the White House grounds,” Gardner said during a live broadcast on MS NOW. “It did not work. There was a red beeping light, and the officer asked me to hand over my badge. He said that it was disabled.”
Gardner said her press badge and photographer badges were both taken away by security. However, an MS NOW producer’s pass was approved, and the employee was still able to go inside.
MS NOW defended its team and newsroom in a statement on Saturday morning, saying the media channel plans to take “any and all steps necessary to defend our First Amendment rights” as journalists in a democracy (Ed. Note: The incompetent and stupid “journalist” should know that the United States of Amerika is not a Democracy; it is a Republic.).
“The White House belongs to the Amerikan people and the decisions made inside are funded by our tax dollars,” MS NOW stated on social media.
The outlet stated that it will continue reporting on the Trump regime even if its reporters are not allowed on White House grounds.
CNN’s reporter Betsy Klein was also denied access and had her press pass revoked.
CNN responded with a statement defending its White House team.
“CNN stands fully behind our White House team and their fair and accurate reporting,” the statement read even though CNN has consistently shown that its “reporting” is neither fair nor accurate.
Politico Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Greenberger shared in the publication’s daily newsletter Playbook that the company’s White House reporter, Cheyenne Haslett, was also locked out on Saturday.
“Secret Service denied her entry to the complex and confiscated the pass that allows her access to the White House,” the statement read. “We stand by her and all reporters here covering the White House. We will vigorously defend our First Amendment rights.”
White House Correspondents’ Association president Jacqui Heinrich, a Senior White House Correspondent for Fox News Channel, accused the White House of singling out CNN, MS NOW and Politico for “doing their jobs”, without addressing the proven fact that these media outlets lie, cheat, misrepresent and otherwise fabricate “news” in order to promote their own ideological positions.
“The Constitution protects the freedom of the press from government interference,” Heinrich wrote in a statement on Sept. 19. “That protection does not depend on whether the president likes a news organization’s coverage, agrees with its reporting, or approves of the questions its journalists ask.”
Shortly thereafter, the White House Rapid Response account on X responded with a list cataloguing years of each network’s own reporting failures and outright fabrications, nearly 50 examples in all.
President Trump said on Truth Social that he was, effective immediately, banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House “as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS.”
The president added, “Media outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration or the United States of America. Other fake news media outlets (will) follow.”
MS NOW and Politico did not immediately respond to requests for comments. CNN could not be reached.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for more details regarding to which stories or posts the president was referring. President Trump routed them during a post-tweet press conference.
"What I do ask is just a semblance of truth. CNN is fake news. MS NOW is fake news. They're fake news. They know it. Politico was bailed out by our government from going out of business."
President Trump added, "I don't want them in my office", stating that he will take this as far he can, including, "we'll be suing these people too.”
President Trump previously banned the Associated Press from the Oval Office and other spaces after the outlet declined to change its stylebook to reflect the president’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
A federal judge entered an injunction against the ban, determining that it violated the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment because it discriminated based on the Associated Press viewpoint.
However, an appeals court in mid-2025 partially stayed the injunction. The court allowed President Trump to ban the outlet from the Oval Office, Air Force One and some other spaces, concluding that “these restricted presidential spaces are not First Amendment fora opened for private speech and discussion” and that the White House “therefore retains discretion to determine, including on the basis of viewpoint, which journalists will be admitted.”
Judges also ruled that President Trump could not ban reporters from the White House’s East Room.
“The identified harms are less clear with respect to the East Room, which does not share the hallmarks of spaces like the Oval Office,” the majority said.
At present, however, there is no White House press secretary, and the usual press briefings are somewhat disrupted. The most likely immediate outcome is that the Trump regime attempts to remove those networks from the presidential and vice presidential pool rotations.