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"The White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish," President Donald Trump declared on Monday. "It is instituting an assault on the FAKE NEWS." Trump was attempting to rebut the criticism provoked by his announcement last Friday that he was "banning" CNN, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), and Politico "from the White House," with "other Fake News Media Outlets to follow." But his defense merely confirmed his long-standing contempt for the freedom he claims to cherish. If you don't cover me the way I like, Trump says, I will not let you cover me at all. "It's difficult to imagine a more blatant violation of the First Amendment," said Seth Stern, chief of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The targeted news outlets responded with a First Amendment lawsuit that was assigned to U.S. District Judge Timothy J.
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Shortly after beginning his second term, Trump barred Associated Press reporters from the Oval Office, Air Force One, and White House briefings because the organization had refused to start calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf America, the name the president prefers .
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