White House restricts media access for White House. Thoughts?

[Cubus]

Members of the media who cover the White House will no longer have free access to an office in the West Wing used by communications staff, the Trump administration said Friday in its latest move to rein in the press corps.

Reporters seeking to speak with White House officials in the office will now need an appointment, according to a memo released Friday by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Steven Cheung, the communications director, both of whom work in the now restricted area.

The White House said the move was motivated by “recent structural changes” that require communications staff to be responsible for matters pertaining to the National Security Council. “In this capacity, members of the White House Communications Staff are routinely engaging with sensitive material,” the memo said.

President Donald Trump has also floated the possibility of moving the press corps off the White House grounds.

“We have an option here,” Trump said earlier this month. “We could move them very easily across the street.”

Under the new rules, reporters will maintain regular access to a separate office adjacent to the briefing room where lower-level communications staff are located, the memo said.

In 1993, President Bill Clinton banned reporters from that part of the West Wing, known as upper press, shortly after he entered the White House. But more recent administrations have allowed reporters to roam the area to speak with members of the communications staff.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/31/white-house-media-access-00632412?_bhlid=ff3a90104359cb9e325dcbe887a240eb9f724fde&utm_campaign=gma-at-a-crossroads&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=www.status.news

[Telekinetic-Potato]

Sounds like he's tired of these ridiculous headlines that stir up foreign propaganda campeigns and attach them to "white house official said" "Pentagon Official claims"

Thank god

[OlderAndWiser]

Democrats will condemn Trump and conveniently forget that Clinton did the same thing.

[OlderAndWiser]

Thanks for MHO!

[Cubus]

You're welcome

[exitseven]

The fake news has been giving a slanted view of Presideny Trump. The lie , omit facts, take words out of context and just make stuff up. Trump is concerned about national security

[DryGermanGuy]

Have him fire Pete Kegstand and his „advisors“.

[exitseven]

@DryGermanGuy Pete is an upgrade from what we just had. We had a guy who was an affirmative action hire who was totslly incompetent,. thst goes for Milley too.

[DryGermanGuy]

So you approve of the constant security breakdowns? Wow.
By the way, I don’t really hear people with actual military background complaining about Lloyd Austin. Only people who have to politicize everything and everybody.

[exitseven]

@DryGermanGuy Lloyd Austin got people killed. There are no "constant security breakdowns"
there was an issue with a phone app that was specified for use by the previous administration. I imagine that there was also "constant security breakdowns" during the Biden administration. The difference is that the fake news would have ignored it. .
Pete Hegseth has spearheaded the destruction of Iran's nuclear bomb making facility and the elimination of drug smugglers coming to the US.

[Cal4576]

Makes it a lot easier to control the media

[beefcakebradybatson]

And the beat (towards Fascism) goes on.(Sonny and Cher,1967.)

[slatyb]

I'm moving to France.