{"id":1037547,"date":"2026-09-22T08:48:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037547"},"modified":"2026-09-22T08:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:27:41","slug":"trump-inaugurates-new-white-house-helipad-tv-networks-boycott-coverage-over-cnn-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/22\/trump-inaugurates-new-white-house-helipad-tv-networks-boycott-coverage-over-cnn-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump inaugurates new White House helipad; TV networks boycott coverage over CNN ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: President Donald Trump showed off his new White House helicopter landing pad on Monday, attempting to brush aside a First Amendment firestorm even as major television networks kept their cameras away in protest of CNN being banned from the grounds. <\/p>\n<p>A light drizzle fell on the South Lawn as Trump used oversized gold scissors to cut a red, white and blue ribbon. He then exchanged handshakes with officials and some members of a construction crew wearing green smocks and hard hats &#8211; seeking to portray business as usual. <\/p>\n<p>If he had words to mark the occasion, however, it was impossible to hear them over the noise of his waiting helicopter. Normally, TV network crews work to capture clearer audio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: President Donald Trump showed off his new White House helicopter landing pad on Monday, attempting to brush aside a First Amendment firestorm even as major television networks kept their cameras away in protest of CNN being banned from the grounds. A light drizzle fell on the South Lawn as Trump used oversized gold scissors to cut a red, white and blue ribbon. He then exchanged handshakes with officials and some members of a construction crew wearing green smocks and hard hats &#8211; seeking to portray business as usual. If he had words to mark the occasion, however, it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037572,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037547\/revisions\/1037572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}