The White House has launched a streaming channel dubbed ‘Trump TV’, offering viewers access to content from President Donald Trump’s administration.
In a late Monday post, the White House said the streaming
channel will be updated in real time with top past moments, announcements, and
latest developments from the administration.
“Not every big moment has made it on your tv, now it can,”
the White House said.
The stream, titled ‘TRUMP TV: The Essentials Station’, is
available on the White House website and its YouTube channel.
The TV launch is the latest escalation of an ongoing row
between the Trump administration and media outlets.
On Friday, Trump announced a ban on CNN, MS NOW and
Politico, accusing the organisations of writing “fiction or lies” about his
team. The companies said their reporters were denied access to the building on
Saturday.
A coalition of major US networks, including ABC, CBS, Fox
News and NBC, suspended their pooled coverage of the president ahead of the
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York in solidarity with the
barred outlets.
In a joint statement on Monday, the outlets said they were
pursuing legal action to “defend the principle that the government does not
decide what the press reports”.
Trump called the news organisations “Third Rate Clowns” and
“Crooked and Corrupt Press” that “trivialise and demean” his achievements.
In February, the White House announced it was taking control
of the press pool which has access to Trump and had for more than a century
been managed by the White House Correspondents’ Association.
The same month, the administration moved to bar Associated
Press (AP) reporters and photographers from spaces where access is limited over
the outlet’s usage of the term “Gulf of Mexico” instead of “Gulf of America”.
AP filed a lawsuit and the case is ongoing.
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