White House launches 'Trump TV' after networks pull out of press pool
Move came after U.S. president banned CNN, MSNOW and Politico from White House
By Brian Towie
Toronto Sun
Published Sep 21, 2026
The White House launched Trump TV on Monday, a new streaming platform exclusively dedicated to platforming content from U.S. President Donald Trump.
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super70s wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):
White House launches 'Trump TV' after networks pull out of press pool
Move came after U.S. president banned CNN, MSNOW and Politico from White House
By Brian Towie
Toronto Sun
Published Sep 21, 2026
The White House launched Trump TV on Monday, a new streaming platform exclusively dedicated to platforming content from U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Great, more taxpayer money falling into the Trump black-hole for money.
super70s wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):
White House launches 'Trump TV' after networks pull out of press pool
Move came after U.S. president banned CNN, MSNOW and Politico from White House
By Brian Towie
Toronto Sun
Published Sep 21, 2026
The White House launched Trump TV on Monday, a new streaming platform
exclusively dedicated to platforming content from U.S. President Donald
Trump.
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Great, more taxpayer money falling into the Trump black-hole for money.
On 2026-09-22 15:31:32 +0000, Chris Ahlstrom said:
super70s wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):
White House launches 'Trump TV' after networks pull out of press pool
Move came after U.S. president banned CNN, MSNOW and Politico from White House
By Brian Towie
Toronto Sun
Published Sep 21, 2026
The White House launched Trump TV on Monday, a new streaming platform
exclusively dedicated to platforming content from U.S. President Donald
Trump.
<snip>
Great, more taxpayer money falling into the Trump black-hole for money.
Trump TV Immediately Flops in Embarrassing Numbers Disaster
By Leigh Kimmins
The Daily Beast
Tue, September 22, 2026 at 4:07 AM CDT
Donald Trump's 24/7 "TV" channel has immediately flopped, in a
humiliating ratings disaster for the president.
The 80-year-old former reality TV star, who calls himself "the king of ratings," got a lot less than he bargained for after he banned CNN, MS
NOW, and Politico from the White House on Friday.
America's major TV networks -- NBC, ABC, CBS, and even Fox News --
suspended their pooled coverage of Trump on Monday in solidarity,
acting as the catalyst for the White House to launch "Trump TV: The Essentials Station," a 24-hour YouTube livestream of Trump's greatest
hits.
Plugging the stream, which is hosted on the existing White House
YouTube channel, Trump's deputy assistant Kaelan Dorr moaned that "the press, in some cases, reported inaccurately or not at all on the Administration's many record-breaking accomplishments," and floated
Trump TV as a one-stop shop for all things Trump.
The only issue is that people don't seem interested. The channel
launched at 7 p.m. with around 8,000 viewers, but the audience had
dropped below 4,000 just 90 minutes later. By 9 p.m. Eastern, the
stream was attracting only about 3,000 viewers, a tiny audience
compared with the millions watching the major networks at primetime.
By around 10:40 p.m., just 2,425 people were watching. The channel has
3.18 million followers, so that's a measly .076 percent.
It reached a new nadir at around 3.30 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, with
just 1,123 watching a rerun of a speech he gave alongside Britain's
King Charles in Windsor a year ago.
The stream has been floated as a replacement for the "fake news"
traditional media, but as their leading morning shows kicked off at 6
a.m. Trump's channel floundered further at just above 1,000 viewers.
This was during a speech on anti-fraud initiatives from May.
As it switched to another old Trump speech, it dipped below 1,000.
Trump announced the ban on Sept. 18, accusing CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO
of producing "FAKE NEWS."
In the Oval Office, he said the decision was based on "cumulative
stories over the last two years" and complained that the outlets wrote "purposely negative" coverage intended to "diminish" him and his administration.
The administration deactivated the reporters' hard passes on Saturday, barring them from the White House grounds, before removing CNN from the shared pool coverage rotation on Monday.
CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO filed a lawsuit the same day. The suit, filed
in federal court in Washington, argues that the administration's move violates the First and Fifth Amendments. It also points to Trump's own
words as evidence that the ban was retaliation for coverage he
disliked, rather than a legitimate security or logistical decision.
"Without notice or process, the White House revoked our journalists' credentials because it objected to our reporting," the trio of
organizations said in a joint statement.
The ban reportedly stemmed from Trump's favorite aide, Natalie Harp,
who played the president clips of anchors on MS NOW "criticizing his administration" before he pulled the plug, sources familiar with the
matter told the Wall Street Journal.
Harp, who earns $150,000 a year as an executive assistant, usually
screens what coverage reaches the president, acting as a buffer between
him and negative press.
But the whole saga has left Trump without an audience. The president
now lacks a major network TV crew or photographers to cover him, as the
pool has downed tools in solidarity with the banned networks.
This culminated in an awkward ribbon-cutting ceremony for his $13
million helipad that descended into a farce, with his remarks rendered virtually inaudible amid the absence of the traditional TV pool.
It all comes as Trump's approval rating slumped to 32 percent, marking
the lowest point of his second term and, according to Reuters, the
lowest of his entire political career.
The 80-year-old former reality TV star, who calls himself "the king of ratings," got a lot less than he bargained for after he banned CNN, MS
NOW, and Politico from the White House on Friday.
The only issue is that people don't seem interested. The channel
launched at 7 p.m. with around 8,000 viewers, but the audience had
dropped below 4,000 just 90 minutes later. By 9 p.m. Eastern, the
stream was attracting only about 3,000 viewers, a tiny audience
compared with the millions watching the major networks at primetime.
On Sep 22, 2026 at 10:20:25 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
The 80-year-old former reality TV star, who calls himself "the king of
ratings," got a lot less than he bargained for after he banned CNN, MS
NOW, and Politico from the White House on Friday.
The only issue is that people don't seem interested. The channel
launched at 7 p.m. with around 8,000 viewers, but the audience had
dropped below 4,000 just 90 minutes later. By 9 p.m. Eastern, the
stream was attracting only about 3,000 viewers, a tiny audience
compared with the millions watching the major networks at primetime.
Let's not pretend there are hundreds of millions or even tens of millions of people watching those cable news shows. They barely pull 200,000 even during the big hours. Last fall, a 70-year-old black-and-white rerun of GUNSMOKE on MeTV had better ratings than CNN in the same time slot.
In contrast, podcasters who do daily news and opinion shows like Matt Walsh and Megan Kelly regularly blow the cable news outlets out of the water. Walsh's show last week posted viewership in the low 700,000s for one episode, while MSNBC struggles to top 200K.
On 2026-09-23 03:20:35 +0000, BTR1701 said:
On Sep 22, 2026 at 10:20:25 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> >> wrote:
The 80-year-old former reality TV star, who calls himself "the king of
ratings," got a lot less than he bargained for after he banned CNN, MS
NOW, and Politico from the White House on Friday.
The only issue is that people don't seem interested. The channel
launched at 7 p.m. with around 8,000 viewers, but the audience had
dropped below 4,000 just 90 minutes later. By 9 p.m. Eastern, the
stream was attracting only about 3,000 viewers, a tiny audience
compared with the millions watching the major networks at primetime.
Let's not pretend there are hundreds of millions or even tens of millions of >> people watching those cable news shows. They barely pull 200,000 even during >> the big hours. Last fall, a 70-year-old black-and-white rerun of GUNSMOKE on >> MeTV had better ratings than CNN in the same time slot.
In contrast, podcasters who do daily news and opinion shows like Matt Walsh >> and Megan Kelly regularly blow the cable news outlets out of the water.
Walsh's show last week posted viewership in the low 700,000s for one episode,
while MSNBC struggles to top 200K.
Does that make Fox News ratings irrelevant too or just the cable news channels you don't like.
BTW several of the top rightwing podcasting bros like Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Andrew Schulz have soured on Trump.
Let's not pretend there are hundreds of millions or even tens of millions=of
people watching those cable news shows. They barely pull 200,000 even dur=ing
the big hours. Last fall, a 70-year-old black-and-white rerun of GUNSMOKE=on
MeTV had better ratings than CNN in the same time slot.
In contrast, podcasters who do daily news and opinion shows like Matt Wal=sh
and Megan Kelly regularly blow the cable news outlets out of the water. Walsh's show last week posted viewership in the low 700,000s for one epis=ode,
while MSNBC struggles to top 200K.
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