Brit Hume says "100%" to Turley's criticism and that Trump is "dreaming" if he expects more favorable coverage
Brit HumeChief political analyst at Fox News Channel, on his personal X account
Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume quote-posted Jonathan Turley's criticism of President Trump's announced exclusion of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, adding "100%." He also wrote that if Trump thinks the move will lead to more favorable coverage, he is dreaming.
“100%. And If he thinks this will lead to more favorable coverage, I think he's dreaming.”
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Should President Trump bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House over their coverage?
On Friday, September 18, 2026, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that, "effective immediately, I am banning" CNN, MS NOW and Politico "from the White House as a result of their constant 'reporting' FAKE NEWS!" About an hour later, in the Oval Office, he said no particular story prompted the decision, that he does not want the outlets "in my office," and that "somebody has a right to keep them away" if outlets write false stories. The three outlets and press-freedom groups oppose the exclusion, citing constitutional protection for the press, and the White House Correspondents' Association said it "stands in defense of our colleagues at CNN, MSNOW, and POLITICO." On Saturday, September 19, MS NOW, CNN and Politico said their White House reporters were refused entry and had press passes confiscated; the White House referred questions to Trump's earlier remarks. The dispute is over whether President Trump should exclude named news organizations from White House access over what they report.
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Hume's own quote-post on his X account (verified badge; the account is linked from his Fox News bio page). It quotes Jonathan Turley's first post of the thread (status 2101041961499058481). The excerpt is Hume's comment only; the quoted words are Turley's.
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Turley's own long-form post (about 52 words) on his X account (verified badge). X's own copy shows the post only up to "from the White"; the rest of the excerpt comes from a third-party copy of the full post. The post's first sentence says Trump had just reaffirmed his intention to ban CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House, and its second sentence calls such a move an assault on free-press principles.
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Roundup of Fox News figures' reactions published Sept. 18, 2026 at 7:21 PM ET. It reports that Hume agreed by quote-tweeting Turley and reproduces his comment as a block quotation matching the original. The outlet's headline wording is its own characterization and is not adopted here.
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Used for context only: it reports that Trump wrote on Truth Social around 3 p.m. Eastern, defended the announcement in the Oval Office about an hour later, that there was no indication his administration had taken steps to follow through, that CNN reporters remained in their White House workspace into Friday evening, and that the White House Press Office referred questions to those remarks. It does not record any statement by Fleischer, Turley or Hume.
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Around 3 p.m. EDT on September 18, 2026, President Trump said on Truth Social that he was "banning" CNN, MS NOW and Politico "from the White House" over their coverage, and about an hour later he defended the announcement in Oval Office remarks. At 4:13 p.m. EDT, Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley posted criticism of the move, and Hume quote-posted Turley's post at 5:06 p.m. EDT.
After the quotation
Mediaite included Hume's post in a roundup of Fox News figures' reactions published at 7:21 p.m. EDT. In an article updated at 10:12 p.m. EDT, CNN reported there was no indication the administration had taken steps to follow through and that the White House Press Office had referred questions to Trump's Oval Office remarks.
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Hume quote-posts Jonathan Turley's criticism of the announced exclusion with "100%," an express statement of agreement, and adds that Trump is "dreaming" if he expects it to bring more favorable coverage, a practical argument against the move. The closest competing label is minimizes, because predicting that the move will not achieve its aim could be read as downplaying its consequences. That loses because Hume pairs the prediction with agreement that the exclusion is objectionable, which treats it as something to oppose rather than as inconsequential.
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