Donald Trump announced Monday his campaign would deny press credentials to Washington Post reporters in retaliation for how their newsroom has covered his presidential bid, making the paper just the latest media outlet to feel the wrath of the presumed Republican nominee.
“Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post,” Trump said on Facebook.
Here’s a look at some of the other media organizations and reporters who have, at times, been on the receiving end of the GOP candidate’s ire.
Daily Beast reporter Olivia Nuzzi has been covering the Trump campaign since its launch in June 2015.
However, she was added to the candidate’s supposed media blacklist in November, compelling her to cover his campaign events as a member of his audience.
“[I]t can be a little scary [when Trump rails against media during his speeches] because I’m usually by myself in this sea of angry people,” she said. “But I have also noticed that when you’re not wearing a press badge, people treat you differently. People tend to fear the press, and that can be a good thing for your own protection.”
In July 2015, the Trump team struck back at an unflattering Des Moines Register editorial by denying the newspaper press credentials to cover an event in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
“Register political columnist Kathie Obradovich was informed Friday that she had been denied a credential to the event, a ‘family picnic’ featuring Trump,” the paper reported at the time. “Trump’s national campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, told Obradovich in a phone call that the Register was being excluded from the event because of the editorial.”
3. Fusion
In the fall of 2015, Fusion revealed the Trump campaign had revoked its press credentials for an event in Miami, Fla.
“Reporters from Fusion were denied entry to a Donald Trump campaign rally in Doral, Florida Friday evening due to — in the words of a top campaign staffer — Mr. Trump’s pending lawsuit against Univision. Fusion is jointly owned by Univision and Disney/ABC,” the group reported.
“The Trump campaign, which days earlier had approved Fusion’s media credentials by email, denied Fusion reporters entry to the event several hours before the rally was scheduled to begin. Univision reporters also got the boot,” the report added.
4. Univision
Univision also found itself barred from a Trump event in October 2015.
“Univision crews were ordered to leave Donald Trump’s campaign event at the Trump National Doral hotel in Florida on Friday. Univision said crews from both the network and local affiliate were asked to leave Trump’s event, according to Doral’s Local 10 News,” Variety reported.
“The station was reportedly cleared to cover the event, but crew members were told upon arrival by someone who appeared to be an off-duty police officer that they were not allowed on the property, which is owned by Trump, according to Local 10 News,” the report added.
The move came on the heels of Trump’s threatening to sue Univision for severing all business ties with him.
The removal of the television crew also came a few weeks after Trump had Univision’s Jorge Ramos forcibly removed from a press conference.
5. BuzzFeed
Trump’s disliking for BuzzFeed runs deeps, and has affected many of the website’s reporters.
In November 2015, the GOP candidate’s campaign barred BuzzFeed’s Evan McMorris-Santoro from an event in Newton, Iowa.
“I asked the Trump camp for credentials several days ago. Never heard back. So I came out to Iowa to check things out,” he said on social media. “At press table, Trump aide looked at my WH and Hill creds, called Trump camp to see if I could be let in. 10 min later, the answer: no.”
“I asked if I could just go in as a citizen (I had been checked out by the secret [service] already) and was told no again. I was not to enter,” he added.
In January, Trump’s team denied BuzzFeed’s McKay Coppins entry to an event in Des Moines, Iowa.
The reporters banned from @realDonaldTrump events have found each other. pic.twitter.com/0CAvJq31Uw
— Pema Levy (@pemalevy) January 29, 2016
In June, the campaign also refused D.C. Bureau Chief John Stanton entry to an event in New York.
On a serious note. I’ve been a reporter for almost 20 years, and I’ve never been barred from attending a press conference until tonight
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) June 8, 2016
Well that’s a new one. Wasn’t even let on the premises of trump’s golf course for his press conference.
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) June 8, 2016
6. Mother Jones
Like Coppins, Mother Jones’ Pema Levy was barred in January from covering Trump’s anti-Fox News rally in Des Moines.
“Tonight I joined a small but growing club of reporters who have been banned from Donald Trump events. Officially, this is not true. Officially, as Trump’s spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, told me in an email, Thursday night’s event at Drake University in Des Moines was ‘well over capacity,'” Levy reported.
“However, every journalist I encountered got in — including a reporter from Canada who was promptly credentialed,” she added.
7. The New Hampshire Union-Leader
In January, Trump claimed victory after the New Hampshire Union-Leader was removed from co-sponsoring a GOP primary with ABC News.
“The debate was always supposed to be led by ABC, and it will go on as planned. But Trump’s claim highlights the complicated dynamic between the debate hosts and the debaters themselves,” CNNMoney reported.
“The Union Leader’s editorial page has been sharply critical of Trump for months, and Trump has returned fire,” the report added.
It’s a story similar to the Union Leader.
In January, National Review was dropped from co-sponsoring a GOP primary debate after the candidate complained the magazine’s vocal opposition to his candidacy posed a serious conflict of interest.
“The Republican National Committee has ended a debate partnership with National Review after the venerable conservative magazine devoted its new issue to a ‘symposium’ of reasons why voters should reject Donald Trump’s presidential campaign,” the Washington Post reported.
9. Politico
In March, the Trump campaign barred reporter Ben Schreckinger from a primary election event in Florida.
“The move followed a threat last week from Trump officials to exclude POLITICO reporters from campaign events,” the group reported.
“On Tuesday morning, Schreckinger, who has covered the campaign regularly for more than six months, received an email granting him credentials for Trump’s speech and press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida that evening. But less than 10 minutes later, another email arrived saying those same credentials were denied. Upon arriving at Trump’s private club, he was denied entry and escorted off of the property,” it added.
The Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone noted in May that the online news group had been added to Trump’s no-fly list.
“The Trump campaign’s severe restrictions on the media have been unprecedented, including denying press credentials … to The Huffington Post,” he reported.
