In the ongoing negotiation between power and accountability that defines democratic governance, President Trump has signaled his intent to bar additional news organizations from White House access — framing press credentials not as a civic right but as a conditional privilege. The move deepens a long-running confrontation between the executive branch and the press corps, raising enduring questions about who controls the story of government and at what cost to the public's right to know. The tension between a president's authority over his own house and the First Amendment's protection of an in