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Trump named the Times and the Post as fake news and said the papers would probably no longer be displayed. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Transcript: White House Oval Office Q&A on the press ban, September 18, 2026 (via Newsmax's The Record) · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:a5eb4f3a65f3a972f22e38ddae0f77981cee2372d550cd66bdbd846ebc762786

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TRUMP: Well, you know, look, The New York Times is fake news. Washington Post is fake news. They're crummy papers … 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. But they're fake news. Totally. New York Times is so fake. Washington Post is disgusting.

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