The White House on Monday launched Trump TV, a 24-hour stream on YouTube. It comes just days after President Donald Trump announced he’d be banning several media outlets from accessing the White House, prompting a lawsuit and support from other outlets.
The livestream, titled “Trump TV: The Essentials Station,” started airing Monday at 7 p.m. EDT. The teaser clip showed various videos of Trump over the years, speaking at rallies or at the White House during his first and second term, with news anchors or commentators highlighting his “greatest comeback in American political history.”
The White House in its YouTube description for Trump TV said viewers can watch the Trump administration’s biggest moments all in one place.
White House officials made note that Trump TV was launching just days after Trump banned CNN, MSNOW and Politico from access to the White House, claiming they were “fake news” and covered the administration more negatively than they did other presidents.
“Not every big moment has made it on your tv, not it can,” the White House shared online regarding Trump TV.
Kaelan Dorr, a deputy assistant to the president, posted on X about Trump TV, saying that the press in some cases has “reported inaccurately or not at all on the Administration’s many record breaking accomplishments.”
As of early Tuesday, the YouTube channel was livestreaming Trump’s remarks to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
There will be fewer outlets livestreaming Trump events after the White House television pool said as of Monday the TV pool won’t be covering events designated as pool events for the president.
“This follows the White House’s position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties,” Bryan Boughton, the Fox News Washington bureau and White House television pool chair, said in a statement. “There will be no replacement pool put in place.”
The news from Boughton came amid a feud between the media and the White House, particularly given Trump’s high-profile events this week at the United Nations and a state visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Members of the White House press pool are assigned to cover the president’s events both in Washington and out of town. They distribute information to other reporters and the public to use in real time.
Following Trump’s announcement to ban three outlets from White House access, others stood in support. The major U.S. television networks, ABC, CNN, CBS, Fox News and NBC, released a joint statement saying no president should restrict independent information about the government.
Other outlets noted they would not be distributing images taken of Trump or the White House event on Monday as part of their solidarity with the press pool.
CNN, MSNOW and Politico filed a joint lawsuit on Monday. The case was randomly assigned to U.S. District Judge Timothy James Kelly, a Trump appointee who previously ruled in the media’s favor in a Trump-related case. The first virtual hearing is Wednesday.
Following the spat with media in Washington, the announcement of Trump TV was criticized by those who believe the live stream is trying to replace news outlets.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, criticized the Trump TV announcement following the ban of media outlets from accessing the White House.
“First, Trump banned independent news from the White House,” he said online. “Now, he’s launching what is quite literally state-run TV to try drowning out the fact that he and his corrupt administration are failing the American people. This is truly autocratic behavior from a failed President.”