# Search, stage: restrict, head of government Donald Trump The number of entries reflects the depth of this record, not the severity of a country's conduct. Filters: country, continent, tactic, stage, from, to, level, actor, leader, outlet, outcome, source_kind, has_case, plus q, sort (date, date_asc, country, tactic, relevance), per_page (up to 100), page and view (table or cards), as query parameters. 11 incidents match this view. - 18 September 2026: [United States: White House hard-pass deactivations for CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters, September 2026](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico). On September 18, 2026, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on Truth Social, a social media platform, and in the Oval Office that CNN, MS NOW and Politico would be banned from the White House, the president's office… - 31 October 2025: [White House closes 'Upper Press' section of West Wing to reporters](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-white-house-restricts-access-to-upper-press-office). The White House began requiring reporters to make appointments before entering the 'Upper Press' area of the West Wing, home to the press secretary's and senior press aides' offices, citing a need to protect sensitive material after accusi… - 15 October 2025: [United States: News organizations turn in their Pentagon press credentials, October 2025](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-pentagon-press-corps-forfeits-badges). Beginning on October 15, 2025, reporters from at least 30 news organizations vacated the press workspace at the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, rather than sign the department's new credential pledge,… - 19 September 2025: [United States: Department of Defense press credential rules requiring approval before release of information, September 2025](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-pentagon-issues-new-press-credentialing-rules). On September 19, 2025, the United States Department of Defense, the federal department that provides the country's military forces, issued new credential rules for reporters at the Pentagon, its headquarters building, under the Secretary o… - 15 April 2025: [White House ends wire services' guaranteed seat in the press pool](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-white-house-cuts-wire-service-pool-slot). The White House ended the decades-old practice of guaranteeing wire services Associated Press, Reuters and Bloomberg a daily seat in the small press pool that covers the president, making them compete instead for a single rotating print sl… - 25 February 2025: [United States: White House takes over selection of the presidential press pool, February 2025](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-whca-loses-control-of-press-pool). On February 25, 2025, the White House announced that it would decide which journalists join the press pool, the small rotating group of reporters who cover the president of the United States in spaces such as the Oval Office and Air Force… - 11 February 2025: [United States: White House exclusion of the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One, February 2025](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-white-house-bars-ap-gulf-of-america). On February 11, 2025, the White House, the office of the president of the United States, began barring journalists from the Associated Press (AP), a United States news agency, from the Oval Office and Air Force One, the aircraft that carri… - 6 February 2025: [Border czar Tom Homan says ICE media ride-alongs may end over leaks](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-tom-homan-signals-end-to-ice-media-ride-alongs). White House border czar Tom Homan said the administration might stop letting journalists ride along on Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations after an Aurora, Colorado raid captured far fewer people than expected, which officials a… - 12 September 2020: [Political appointees alter CDC coronavirus guidance before public release](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2020-hhs-officials-alter-cdc-covid-guidance-before-publication). Reporting in 2020 found that political appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services rewrote or edited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's public coronavirus guidance and its weekly scientific bulletin before relea… - 7 November 2018: [White House revokes CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's press credential after a news conference exchange with President Trump](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2018-us-cnn-acosta-credential-revoked). After CNN's Jim Acosta questioned President Trump at a news conference and briefly kept hold of a microphone as an intern reached for it, the White House suspended his hard pass, the standing credential letting reporters enter the grounds;… - 7 November 2018: [United States: White House suspension of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's hard pass, November 2018](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2018-white-house-revokes-acosta-press-pass). On November 7, 2018, the White House suspended the hard pass of CNN's White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, after what Gulf News called a "heated confrontation" between Acosta and the president of the United States, Donald Trump, at a new… Download this view. CSV, JSON or Markdown. CC BY 4.0; credit "The War On News, thewaronnews.com". - CSV: https://thewaronnews.com/search?stage=restrict&leader=donald-trump&view=cards&format=csv - JSON: https://thewaronnews.com/search.json?stage=restrict&leader=donald-trump&view=cards - Markdown: https://thewaronnews.com/search.md?stage=restrict&leader=donald-trump&view=cards Source page: https://thewaronnews.com/search?stage=restrict&leader=donald-trump&view=cards. The War On News, CC BY 4.0.