# Timeline: Donald Trump

Recorded incidents in which Donald Trump is named, oldest first.

- 2018-11-07: White House revokes CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's press credential after a news conference exchange with President Trump (incident 2018-us-cnn-acosta-credential-revoked) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2018-us-cnn-acosta-credential-revoked
- 2018-11-07: United States: White House suspension of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's hard pass, November 2018 (incident 2018-white-house-revokes-acosta-press-pass) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2018-white-house-revokes-acosta-press-pass
- 2019-05-23: United States indicts WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act (incident 2019-us-assange-espionage-act-indictment) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2019-us-assange-espionage-act-indictment
- 2020-07-16: Federal officers restrict press access to Portland protests; judge orders them to stop (incident 2020-federal-officers-target-journalists-portland-injunction) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2020-federal-officers-target-journalists-portland-injunction
- 2020-09-12: Political appointees alter CDC coronavirus guidance before public release (incident 2020-hhs-officials-alter-cdc-covid-guidance-before-publication) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2020-hhs-officials-alter-cdc-covid-guidance-before-publication
- 2024-12-16: Trump sues Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer over final Iowa poll (incident 2024-trump-sues-des-moines-register-selzer-poll) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2024-trump-sues-des-moines-register-selzer-poll
- 2025-02-11: United States: White House exclusion of the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One, February 2025 (incident 2025-white-house-bars-ap-gulf-of-america) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-white-house-bars-ap-gulf-of-america
- 2025-02-25: United States: White House takes over selection of the presidential press pool, February 2025 (incident 2025-whca-loses-control-of-press-pool) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-whca-loses-control-of-press-pool
- 2025-03-15: United States: U.S. Agency for Global Media action to shut down Voice of America operations, March 2025 (incident 2025-usagm-moves-to-shut-down-voice-of-america) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-usagm-moves-to-shut-down-voice-of-america
- 2025-04-15: White House ends wire services' guaranteed seat in the press pool (incident 2025-white-house-cuts-wire-service-pool-slot) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-white-house-cuts-wire-service-pool-slot
- 2025-04-22: 60 Minutes executive producer resigns, citing lost editorial independence (incident 2025-60-minutes-producer-owens-resigns-loss-of-independence) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-60-minutes-producer-owens-resigns-loss-of-independence
- 2025-05-01: United States: Executive Order 14290 directing an end to federal funding for NPR and PBS, May 2025 (incident 2025-trump-order-ends-cpb-funding-npr-pbs) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-trump-order-ends-cpb-funding-npr-pbs
- 2025-07-01: United States: Paramount settlement of Donald Trump's lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview, July 2025 (incident 2025-paramount-cbs-settle-60-minutes-suit) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-paramount-cbs-settle-60-minutes-suit
- 2025-07-18: Trump sues Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over Epstein birthday letter story (incident 2025-trump-sues-wall-street-journal-epstein-letter) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-trump-sues-wall-street-journal-epstein-letter
- 2025-07-18: Congress cuts $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting (incident 2025-congress-rescinds-cpb-funding) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-congress-rescinds-cpb-funding
- 2025-09-16: Trump files, then refiles, $15 billion defamation suit against the New York Times (incident 2025-trump-sues-new-york-times-15-billion) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-trump-sues-new-york-times-15-billion
- 2025-10-31: White House closes 'Upper Press' section of West Wing to reporters (incident 2025-white-house-restricts-access-to-upper-press-office) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-white-house-restricts-access-to-upper-press-office
- 2026-07-10: Customs officers seize Grayzone editor's phones at Virginia airport over Iran reporting (incident 2026-cbp-seizes-grayzone-editor-phones-airport) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-cbp-seizes-grayzone-editor-phones-airport
- 2026-09-18: United States: White House hard-pass deactivations for CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters, September 2026 (incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico
- 2026-09-18: Trump announces CNN, MS NOW and Politico will be banned from the White House (incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico
- 2026-09-19: Secret Service deactivates the three outlets' hard passes; reporters denied entry (incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico
- 2026-09-19: WHCA statement on the White House's position on CNN, MS NOW and Politico (incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico
- 2026-09-20: Other pool networks decline to fill CNN's vacated rotating pool slot (incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico
- 2026-09-21: CNN, MS NOW and Politico file suit against Trump and the White House (incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico
- 2026-09-23: Hearing scheduled in Cable News Network, Inc. v. Trump (incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico

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