DOMINANT ANGLE
Buenos Aires sees a domestic reflection in the Trump-press confrontation: the Argentine press reads in it the echo of President Javier Milei's own attacks on critical media.
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
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CNN, MS NOW, and Politico announced Monday they would pursue the Trump administration after being barred from White House access, a decision made Friday and enforced Saturday.
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Joint statement cited by El Cronista: "Without prior notice or any process, the White House revoked the credentials of our journalists because it objected to our coverage."
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Journalists Betsy Klein (CNN), Akayla Gardner (MS NOW), and Cheyenne Haslett (Politico) were denied entry to the White House, their credentials deactivated or confiscated, according to Perfil.
ANALYSIS
Buenos Aires, September 22, 2026. Donald Trump's veto against three American media outlets resonates in Buenos Aires as a familiar scenario. The Argentine daily Perfil headlined without hesitation: "Trump, a lo Milei" — Trump, in the style of Milei —, immediately placing the Washington conflict in the mirror of the tense relationship between Argentine President Javier Milei and a part of the local press.
The facts come from the United States. CNN, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), and Politico announced on Monday that they are taking the Trump administration to court, after the president ordered them to be banned from the White House on Friday. The measure was applied on Saturday: the accreditations of journalists Betsy Klein (CNN), Akayla Gardner (MS NOW), and Cheyenne Haslett (Politico) were deactivated or confiscated upon their arrival.
In a joint statement cited by the two Argentine dailies consulted, the three groups state: "Without notice or procedure, the White House revoked the accreditations of our journalists because it disputed our coverage." They see this as an attack on the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which protects press freedom, and are demanding a temporary restraining order requiring the executive to immediately restore the withdrawn accreditations.
The complaint, according to El Cronista, goes further: it accuses the president and members of his administration of having acted "with the express purpose of excluding journalists and media outlets whose editorial positions do not please the Trump administration." The three media outlets claim to have suffered "serious and irreparable harm" since the ban.
For Perfil, this episode is not isolated: it is part of a series of measures taken by Trump and his administration against press organizations since the beginning of his second term, a conflict that the newspaper describes as "classic" of his management. It is precisely this repeated precedent — and its echo in the also conflictual relationship between Javier Milei and critical Argentine media — that structures the local reading of the affair: less an American novelty than a confirmation of a style of governance that Buenos Aires already knows from the inside.
A hearing is expected on Wednesday, September 23, before a federal court in Washington, where the three editorial offices will argue for the urgency of restoring their access before any decision on the merits.
