The joint camera feed stopped, and the White House used YouTube to replay it to fill the gap. The channel is called Trump Television, and it isn’t on cable.
At 7 p.m. on the evening of September 21 in the Eastern Time Zone, the White House’s official channel went live under the name “Trump TV: The Essentials Station.” The official says it runs 24 hours with real-time updates, putting older highlights, announcements, and the latest content all in one place. The first segment isn’t footage from that day’s event on-site—it’s a recording of Trump’s July 3 speech at Mount Rushmore.
On the 18th, Trump barred CNN, Politico, and MSNBC from entering the White House, citing their continued coverage of what he called fake news. On the 21st, CNN was next in line to do the televised pool—the network’s people couldn’t get in. ABC, CBS, Fox News, and NBC did not fill in as replacements. Bryan Boughton, the president of Fox News Washington Bureau and the current pool chair, wrote a letter saying that, effective immediately, they will no longer cover events designated for presidential pool coverage. The three organizations filed suit the same day, saying the ban violates the First Amendment.
What stopped was the pool footage assigned to national media. What the White House filled in was old speeches it had selected itself.
At 7 p.m. on the evening of September 21 in the Eastern Time Zone, the White House’s official channel went live under the name “Trump TV: The Essentials Station.” The official says it runs 24 hours with real-time updates, putting older highlights, announcements, and the latest content all in one place. The first segment isn’t footage from that day’s event on-site—it’s a recording of Trump’s July 3 speech at Mount Rushmore.
On the 18th, Trump barred CNN, Politico, and MSNBC from entering the White House, citing their continued coverage of what he called fake news. On the 21st, CNN was next in line to do the televised pool—the network’s people couldn’t get in. ABC, CBS, Fox News, and NBC did not fill in as replacements. Bryan Boughton, the president of Fox News Washington Bureau and the current pool chair, wrote a letter saying that, effective immediately, they will no longer cover events designated for presidential pool coverage. The three organizations filed suit the same day, saying the ban violates the First Amendment.
What stopped was the pool footage assigned to national media. What the White House filled in was old speeches it had selected itself.
