Fox News joined a press-pool stoppage after the White House barred CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO. Trump adviser Peter Navarro urges the White House to cut ties with Fox; a judge temporarily restored the outlets’ access for 14 days as their case continues.
Navarro’s campaign followed Fox’s firing of anchor Maria Bartiromo earlier this month. After a Fox executive told her not to cover Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of foreign interference in the 2020, 2022 and 2024 elections, Bartiromo canceled an interview with Navarro and showed him the instruction; he passed it up the White House chain of command. Fox also fired her executive producer. Navarro has urged Cabinet secretaries and senior officials to stop appearing on Fox News and Fox Business.
After pool coverage resumed Friday, the White House barred CNN from traveling with Trump on Air Force One. Fox has topped total-day and primetime cable-news ratings every year since 2002, but Salon says its ratings show signs of erosion as Trump’s approval declines. The article also cites Laura Ingraham and Jesse Watters questioning Trump’s handling of the Iran war, drawing strong disapproval from a large segment of his populist base.
