Trump bans another media service

Time - The White House on Monday blocked POLITICO from boarding Air Force One and carrying out its print pool duties, marking the latest escalation in an ongoing battle over media outlets’ access to President Donald Trump.

“Many outlets including POLITICO are granted access to attend and cover presidential events unilaterally, but traveling with the President of the United States aboard Air Force One is a privilege not a right,” a White House official tells TIME. The official adds that Trump is “the most accessible President in American history, and that he will “continue to grant an unprecedented level of access to the press.”

In the White House pool system, a rotating group of journalists accompanies the President to events and shares updates with the wider press corps. But that pool system has been complicated by the President’s most recent efforts to punish media organizations whose coverage he objects to.