JB Pritzker
Role at the time: Governor of Illinois, posting on his verified X account and his Bluesky account
Statement summary
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker posted on X, quoting a post that reproduced the core of Trump's Truth Social announcement, and repeated the text on Bluesky with a screenshot of that post. He called the announcement yet another attack on the First Amendment and said Trump was acting against journalists he dislikes to keep the public from hearing about his record.
“This is yet another attack on the First Amendment”
First-party post from his X account (@JBPritzker, government-verified; name and bio match). Posted September 18, 2026, 19:47:33 UTC from Twitter Web App; it is not a reply. It is a quote-tweet of @atrupar status 2101025660806332752, which reproduces the core sentence of Trump's announcement (effective immediately, banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House over their constant 'reporting').
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Pritzker, quoting a post that reproduced the announcement, calls it yet another attack on the First Amendment and says Trump is acting against journalists he dislikes to keep the public from hearing about his record, which rejects excluding the outlets. The closest competing label is “Challenged the characterization”, because the post also disputes Trump's stated reason by attributing a different motive. That loses because the motive claim supports, rather than replaces, an express condemnation of the act as an attack on the First Amendment.