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The excerpt names The New York Times and Washington Post, calls them fake news, and says the White House will probably no longer display those papers. 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

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.