Lee Anderson

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

.@SarahLongwell25: "Trump only cares about his ballroom. He only cares about his arch. He only cares about tearing down the Kennedy Center. He only cares about putting his name on things. He does not actually care about the American people struggling."

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Health insurance is supposed to protect you in case you get sick. Filing zero claims is not proof you never needed coverage. Republicans are the most evil people around.

[Bakari Sellers @Bakari_Sellers]

Our country is really really dumb right now

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Those who ban the press and start state run media are never the good guys in history.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

This is the dumbest government in history

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017:

"I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Here the president says the press has “an obligation” to be “fair”…by reporting things like how he has settled eight wars (he hasn’t) and how there is $21 trillion in investment pouring into the US (there isn’t).

[Andrew Eastmond @eastmond_andrew]

But we have the First Amendment so a self-styled "king" can't get to decide what's "fake". Precisely what the Founding Fathers intended...

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

Breitbart had the exact same access to both the Obama and Biden White Houses that Politico and the others have now had stripped.

The VP is either ignorant or a liar.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

In person, we're usually different - and better - than we are online.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"Trump appears to be both furious and confused about why the Fed is doing this. He’s furious because he wants lower rates to juice the economy ahead of the midterms. And he’s confused because, well, he’s a moron."
https://t.co/lLTQEWVa7W

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

Finally some peace and quiet.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

This is plainly the correct move by the networks. Trump's lifeblood is publicity, and in particular TV coverage. If he's going to unconstitutionally exclude news outlets because of their viewpoint, no reason to give him what he wants.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

The decision by the television outlets not to participate in the White House pool today in response to Trump's self-declared "ban on the free press" will leave the most TV-addicted president in our history without major network cameras recording his every utterance and movement.

[Guy Cecil @guycecil]

If people in power get to choose how the press covers them, then it is no longer a free press.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Major U.S. TV networks are standing together in solidarity with CNN after the Trump administration barred CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO from the White House.

With CNN blocked from carrying out its scheduled TV pool duties, the other networks are declining to replace them.

[Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter]

Things Donald Trump says are for “national security”:

• A $1 billion White House bunker-ballroom & rooftop "drone port"

• A fully weaponized Arc de Trump

• Thousands of National Guard troops occupying D.C.

•Terrorist designations and a 1798 wartime law to justify unjust ICE raids, detentions, and deportations.

• Arresting, smearing, and killing ICE protesters, and other activists, political opponents, including Reflecting Pool observers.

It’s a typical pathetic strongman mash of insanity vanity projects, federal occupation and the criminalization of dissent, all justified with the same two magic words authoritarians love to twist to their own ends: “national security.”

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Trump's ban is a legal story now. Lawyers for the three news outlets banned from the White House are working through next steps, and you can expect legal action in the coming days.