{"id":5357,"date":"2026-09-25T23:25:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2026-09-25T23:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:25:03","slug":"trump-banned-ms-now-from-the-white-house-but-symone-sanders-townsend-says-he-still-watches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=5357","title":{"rendered":"Trump banned MS NOW from the White House. But Symone Sanders-Townsend says he still watches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2290520452-e1790368025158.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Symone Sanders-Townsend dealt with White House reporters for years as Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s chief spokesperson. So having some coverage, some of which she maybe would think unfair, is nothing new. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere were definitely times where I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, so and so is in the pool today. It\u2019s gonna be a little more difficult,&#8217;\u201d the MS NOW host told <em>Fortune<\/em>. \u201cBut it never crossed my mind that I could say I don\u2019t want them here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump had no such hesitation. On Sept. 18, he announced that he would be banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, after accusing them of reporting \u201cFICTION and LIES.\u201d On Monday morning, the outlets sued, and hours later, Trump defended the ban at a press conference with Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Gracie Mansion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered their access restored for 14 days, finding the ban was likely unconstitutional. But mere hours later, MS NOW\u2019s Laura Barr\u00f3n-L\u00f3pez and two CNN journalists were turned away from the arrival ceremony for Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s state dinner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is a difference between rights on paper and rights in practice,\u201d Sanders-Townsend said, referencing examples like the constitutional amendments that came after the Civil War to protect Black Americans. \u201cWe cannot allow that right to become a right on paper and not a right in practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a White House and this is an administration where retribution is actually a feature, not a bug,\u201d she said. \u201cThe president literally ran on \u2018I will be your retribution.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said the real concern is the midterms. \u201cIt\u2019s not lost on me that it\u2019s happening less than 40 days before Election Day,\u201d she said. Most voters, she noted, learn results from news outlets, not county election websites. \u201cIf this president can convince a large swath of Americans that the news organizations cannot independently be trusted to tell them the truth, well, then he can claim that these organizations calling the election are actually lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Covering the White House, as it is, is a small niche in an even smaller field of journalism. Reporters know each other, share notes, and remember each others\u2019 kids\u2019 birthdays. So when the White House blocked CNN from its turn in the rotating TV pool, the banned outlets didn\u2019t stand alone: ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC refused to fill in, saying in a rare joint statement that \u201cno administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly 50 news organizations signed a friend-of-the-court brief, compiled by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, urging the ban to be lifted. In the meantime, the <em>New York Times<\/em> and the <em>Washington Post<\/em> said they would hold off on running pool photos. Fox News stood with CNN in 2018, too, after the White House barred CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins from an event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sanders-Townsend praised rival outlets for backing the three banned networks. \u201cFor the entities and individuals that have fought when their rights have been trampled on, by and large they\u2019ve won,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s the organizations that just decide to roll over and settle that are the cautionary tales.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She referenced the president\u2019s affinity for the media. On Monday, at the joint presser the president held with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the president said the relationship is a two-way street, because media would never \u201cboycott\u201d him. \u201cIn one breath, he will lambaste the media and literally drag the media apparatus through the mud,\u201d she said. \u201cBut in another breath, he cares very much so about the coverage. He watches MS NOW. The people at the White House watch our network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ban lands as MS NOW builds a business of its own. The network split from NBC News last year when Comcast spun off its cable channels into Versant. On Sept. 9, it launched a paid membership app. The president said the spin-off was to protect against a dying business, but the company says it has logged 150 million podcast downloads alone this year.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018I don\u2019t live by the comments\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of those podcasts is <em>Clock It<\/em>, which Sanders-Townsend co-hosts with former White House correspondent Eugene Daniels. On Sept. 16, streamer Hasan Piker made his first MS NOW appearance on the show, and the two had an exchange that went viral. \u201cIf I was a strategist or a consultant or the political director on one of these campaigns, I would absolutely be telling my people to disavow you,\u201d she told him on the podcast. In response, Piker argued his views are closer to the majority than the national Democratic Party\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Piker, who has 3.1 million Twitch followers, has campaigned with Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who called Piker\u2019s past remark that the U.S. deserved the 9\/11 attacks \u201ca dumb statement\u201d but has kept appearing with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sanders-Townsend told <em>Fortune<\/em> she and Daniels booked Piker to talk to him rather than about him. She agreed with his view that Republicans use him to avoid the issues he raises. \u201cThey just want to talk about him, and I think he\u2019s correct about that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But she said candidates still need to think about messaging when it\u2019s a streamer with a high profile. \u201cIt\u2019s one thing when you are going to someone on their platform because you want the access and the audience that they have done the work of building up,\u201d she said. \u201cBut when the creators or the streamers step out of their element and then they step onto a stage next to a candidate, I do think that the stakes change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The interview drew criticism from the right and the left, with many questioning why she invited him in the first place. \u201cDid we read the comments? Yeah, but I don\u2019t live by the comments, so the comments aren\u2019t going to kill me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said the online debate misses a step: the actual steps behind policy debate. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of conversation about policies, but not enough conversation about the politics that it takes to make the policies a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Trump #banned #White #House #Symone #SandersTownsend #watches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symone Sanders-Townsend dealt &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[779,273,305,610,8144,8427,8426,357,8428,304,300],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-banned","tag-donald-trump","tag-house","tag-media","tag-msnbc","tag-sanderstownsend","tag-symone","tag-trump","tag-watches","tag-white","tag-white-house"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump banned MS NOW from the White House. 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