President Donald Trump told a reporter on Saturday that he prefers outlets providing actual news over those he considers fraudulent while traveling to Knoxville for a football game between Tennessee and Texas. Trump claimed a group like CNN has barely produced one good story in two years and reiterated that he won the previous election in a landslide, justifying his decision to keep the network off his presidential aircraft.

The trip, accompanied by First Lady Natalie Harp, followed a White House move to block CNN from fulfilling its television press pool duties on Air Force One. In the network's place, the administration allocated seats to Real America's Voice. A Fox media analyst noted the ban could violate a federal judge's order from Thursday that restored CNN's access to White House grounds, while some press pool members urged others to stop broadcasting pooled coverage of the visit.