JB Pritzker on U.S. Politics

Public disputes concerning political parties, public officials, institutions, political conduct, and governance in the United States.

How we classify topics

Counts show individual statements. They do not assign an overall position.

Statement history

1 statement on this page. Dates: September 18, 2026

1 matching statement. Dates: September 18, 2026

2 published statements. Dates: September 18, 2026

JB Pritzker
Role at the time: Governor of Illinois, posting on his verified X account and his Bluesky account
September 18, 2026Condemned
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”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)

JB Pritzker on X: post quoting a report of Trump's announcement about CNN, MS NOW and Politico · JB PritzkerFull post (two sentences) quoting journalist Aaron Rupar's post, posted 3:47 PM EDT (19:47 UTC) on September 18, 2026.

First-party post from his X account (@JBPritzker, government-verified; name and bio match). Read through the fxtwitter API: created Fri Sep 18 19:47:33 +0000 2026, source Twitter Web App, 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'). x.com itself was not opened directly.

Why we used this label

The case's fixed reference point is President Trump's announcement, by Truth Social post at 3:04 PM EDT on Friday 2026-09-18 and reaffirmed on camera in the Oval Office that afternoon, that CNN, MS NOW and Politico are banned from the White House because of their coverage. 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 challenges_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.

Read statement Should President Trump bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House over their coverage?