White House Launches ‘Trump TV’ Amid Feud With Press

It’s unclear if the YouTube-hosted stream, called “Trump TV,” is meant to potentially fill the void of television pool coverage of the President’s events. But it went live at 7 p.m. ET, according to the White House, with a rerun of Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore on July 3. 

The White House described the stream as putting “top past moments, announcements, and the latest and greatest from the Administration all in one place.” In its social media post, the White House added: “Not every big moment has made it on your tv, now it can.” 

Kaelan Dorr, a deputy assistant to the President and head of digital strategy at the White House, posted on social media about how Trump TV would show “the Administration’s greatest hits, unfiltered.” Dorr added: “The press, in some cases, reported inaccurately or not at all on the Administration’s many record breaking accomplishments on behalf of all Americans.”

CNN was supposed to shoot for the pool on Monday, with footage distributed to other networks, but it was one of the three organizations, alongside MS NOW and Politico, which were banned from the White House on Friday over their negative coverage of the President. The outlets have sued the Administration on free speech grounds, and, in seeming solidarity against the ban, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC subsequently suspended television pool coverage of presidential events. “No Administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting,” their joint statement said.