White House bars CNN from flying on Air Force One for Trump’s Tennessee trip

The White House has blocked CNN from traveling with President Donald Trump aboard the presidential aircraft Air Force One, for a visit the president will make Saturday to Tennessee, the Washington Post reported Friday, citing two people familiar with the decision, according to Reuters.

The decision comes just one day after federal judge Timothy Kelly blocked Trump’s ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico entering the White House. With the court’s ruling, the outlets’ access was restored Thursday.

CNN’s exclusion from the presidential flight is seen as a new escalation in the open battle between President Trump and the media. On September 18, the Trump administration had barred the three outlets from the White House over reporting the president has called “fake news.”