The White House has removed CNN’s access to Air Force One for President Donald Trump’s Saturday flight to Knoxville, where he is scheduled to attend Tennessee-Texas, and replaced it with Real America’s Voice and Lindell TV.
CNN White House correspondent Alayna Treene announced the replacement during an appearance on the network with Anderson Cooper and was not very pleased with the change.
The liberal network was originally scheduled for the television pool rotation that day, the slot networks use to shoot video that other outlets are free to air.
Friday night’s White House guidance left CNN off the plane.
“The White House is now preventing CNN from carrying out their TV duties,” she said. “It’s unclear what’s going to happen to [the pool coverage] now.”
“We did hear our outside lawyer representing CNN, Politico, and MS NOW say earlier today that he believed the restoration of the outlet’s access included the White House pool, but clearly this White House is keeping us from doing so,” Treene continued.
“We know that they are definitely singling us out here.”
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CNN later wrote that “no outlet” was listed as a replacement, taking a clear shot at Real America’s Voice and Lindell TV.
“The move — announced Friday night in a White House note that lays out the president’s schedule — represents the Trump administration’s latest salvo against CNN and the broader White House press corps. No outlet was listed as replacing CNN, meaning there will be no television pool coverage of his trip,” CNN claimed.
Last week, Trump banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House complex, accusing them of “FICTION and LIES.”
Secret Service took their credentials away.
The three outlets quickly filed a lawsuit.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly issued a 14-day restraining order on Thursday restoring credentials, saying it looked like a due-process problem.
The order covered the building, but it did not settle Air Force One or the pool rotation.
CNN was already previously yanked from UN General Assembly pool duty. Fox, ABC, CBS, and NBC then refused to fill in.
Fox bureau chief Bryan Boughton told pool subscribers there would be “no replacement pool.”
“This is to advise that, effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President,” Boughton wrote in the email, obtained by POLITICO. “This follows the White House’s position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be no replacement pool put in place.”
Real America’s Voice and LindellTV stepped in to fill the void.
RAV vowed to give every outlet a free, clean feed of White House and travel-pool video.
“At a time when a handful of legacy outlets are casting the President’s decision as the death of the free press, the reality is exactly the opposite,” Parker Sigg, Vice President of Real America’s Voice, said in a press release.
“Real America’s Voice is pleased to provide a feed of the pool camera to all the media, even the fake news, and to the American people. A free press is alive and well, and we are honored to be a conduit of this foundational constitutional principle for all of America.”
Lindell TV and RAV covered Xi Jinping’s arrival at the White House and Joint Base Andrews when the legacy pool sat out.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/watch-cnn-whines-about-being-replaced-real-americas/
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