This comes amid the administration’s decision to ban several news outlets from the White House.
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, standing beside US President Donald Trump, said that he told the Republican leader that members of the press would be allowed on the Gracie Mansion lawn.
And that is something that I believe in, is everyone, no matter the opinion or the critique, that we engage. So I wasn’t very worried about that. Look at all that press. CNN had been scheduled to serve Monday as the White House TV pool. “The White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish.
Because they said they were going to boycott me, but they never boycott me, trump said, “It’s interesting.
The NYC mayor responded, “You know, I told the President that we’re going to have all of the members of the press here on the lawn. In response to Mamdani’s position on press access, Trump said that he was unconcerned about threatened boycotts. US broadcasters said on Monday that they were halting “pool” coverage of the White House, in solidarity with CNN, according to an AFP report. Defending the ban, US President Trump on Truth Social argued that his administration is not attacking the free press, but rather conducting a strike on what he described as fake news that has grown “like cancer” across the nation. It is instituting an assault on the FAKE NEWS, something that has grown like Cancer in our beloved United States of America,” Trump said in the post.
