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Trump called both papers fake news and said the White House would probably stop displaying them. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Transcript: Oval Office press availability, September 18, 2026 · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:d255dc88daf64845082ef15ab79ff8f64c34e8a665c8b0e06dd2a2d8a0c1423f

TRUMP: Well, you know, look, The New York Times is fake news. Washington Post is fake news. They're crummy papers, both doing very poorly, by the way. But we'll see. We'll probably not going to display the paper anymore in the White House, those papers. But we haven't taken the step of throwing them out.