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Mamdani confronts Trump with ‘all the members of the press’, hours after CNN, MS NOW and Politico sue over White House ban
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President Donald Trump has long had an antagonistic relationship with the press.
Key facts
- Trump again tried to revoke TPS status in 2025, only for his ban to again be challenged int he courts; the Supreme Court ruled in June 2026 that DHS could proceed with cutting off protections
- In 2018, the White House revoked the press pass of then-CNN reporter Jim Acosta, until a federal judge ordered it be restored
- Haiti has held TPS status since the 2010 earthquake, but upon removing TPS status for Haitians, then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem argued that the administration was “returning TPS to its original status: temporary
- New York has the country’s second-largest Haitian population after Miami, more than 160,000 people, concentrated in Brooklyn’s Flatbush and East Flatbush
Summary
It’s a contradiction that defined Monday: a president who grants extraordinary access on his own terms, and revokes it entirely when the coverage displeases him. “I told the president that we’re going to have all of the members of the press here on the lawn, and that is something that I believe in,” Mamdani said. Standing next to him on the lawn of the famed city house was Trump, who on Friday announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds over the “constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS.” By Monday morning, the three banned outlets had filed a joint First Amendment lawsuit in federal court in Washington D.C., arguing the ban amounted to viewpoint discrimination and violated their due-process rights.