2026年9月23日 美国东部时间下午2:10 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
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2026年9月23日 美国东部时间下午2:45 更新
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2025年11月1日，美国弗吉尼亚州前众议员、弗吉尼亚州民主党州长候选人阿比盖尔·斯潘伯格的竞选活动上，前总统巴拉克·奥巴马出席活动。活动地点位于弗吉尼亚州诺福克市Chartway竞技场。
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巴拉克·奥巴马表示，他对总统唐纳德·特朗普禁止CNN、MSNBC和Politico进入白宫的决定“并不意外”，并辩称新闻自由问题不应“党派化”。
“据我所知，没有任何重要的共和党群体站出来说‘不行，你不能这么做，因为我们不想看到如果有民主党总统上台，会有人禁止福克斯新闻或其他批评民主党总统的媒体’，”这位前总统周一晚间在马萨诸塞州塞勒姆州立大学的活动中说道。
“你不能一边这么做，一边声称自己仍生活在民主国家，”奥巴马在活动中对历史学家多丽丝·卡恩斯·古德温说道，他将当前局势描述为“美国总统不能接受任何批评”。
“这不应成为党派问题。我想强调这一点。这应该是超越党派分歧的议题，”奥巴马继续说道。
特朗普周五在社交媒体上宣布封禁这些媒体机构，称这是“它们持续‘报道’假新闻的结果！”他后来将其描述为“一项非常简单的禁令”。
“我不想让他们进入我的办公室，我不想让他们在这里。我想说这项禁令的范围会尽可能广，”特朗普在椭圆形办公室说道。
奥巴马在马萨诸塞州的活动中表示，新闻自由是“立国之本”。
“新闻自由，即政府不能因为不喜欢针对自己的批评，就歧视、刁难、霸凌或排斥某个媒体机构，这是一个根本性的议题，”这位前总统说道。
“所以，现任总统想要封禁批评他的新闻机构，我并不意外，因为他就是这种人，”奥巴马补充道。
奥巴马指出，在他担任总统期间，他曾推动在压制媒体的国家争取更多新闻自由。
奥巴马在白宫任职期间也曾面临有关媒体准入的质疑。有一次，助手们曾短暂将福克斯新闻排除在一场官员集体采访之外；还有一次，他因未公布自己与泰格·伍兹打高尔夫球的照片而遭到白宫记者协会批评。但整个白宫记者团总体上始终一致反对这些举措。
在本周早些时候的一份新闻稿中，特朗普政府援引奥巴马政府此前的类似行动等案例，为针对三家媒体机构的禁令辩护。
此次被禁的三家媒体机构已起诉特朗普政府，要求恢复其采访权限。
奥巴马还对媒体机构之间展现出的更大团结表示赞赏。例如，在特朗普政府周一禁止CNN履行其指定的白宫 pool 职责后，各大电视网络都拒绝替换CNN的白宫随行采访团队。
“这实际上是宪法规定的权利。这相当明确，不是吗？言论自由，第一修正案之所以存在是有原因的，”奥巴马周一说道。
“问题不在于（这项禁令）最终会被推翻。问题在于任何总统都能如此厚颜无耻地采取这种行动，而其所在政党的人却不说‘不，你不能这么做。这不可接受’。我最担心的正是这种缺乏约束的状态。”
Obama ‘not surprised’ by Trump’s media ban, calls issue of press freedom ‘foundational’
2026-09-23 2:10 PM ET / CNN
By Edward-Isaac Dovere
Updated Sep 23, 2026, 2:45 PM ET
PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2026, 2:10 PM ET
Former President Barack Obama during a campaign event for former Representative Abigail Spanberger, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Virginia, at the Chartway Arena in Norfolk, Virginia, on Nov. 1, 2025.
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Barack Obama said he’s “not surprised” by President Donald Trump’s decision to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, arguing that the issue should not be “partisan.”
“You do not have, as far as I can tell, any substantial group of Republicans who are standing up and saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, because we don’t want, if there’s a Democratic president, to be banning Fox News,’ or whatever other outlets that are going off on Democratic presidents,” the former president said Monday night at an event at Salem State University in Massachusetts.
“You can’t do that and say that you are still living in a democracy,” Obama told historian Doris Kearns Goodwin during the event, describing the situation as “the president of the United States can’t take some criticism.”
“This should not be a partisan issue. I want to underscore this. This should be something that rises above partisanship,” Obama went on to say.
Trump announced the move to ban the organizations on social media on Friday saying it was “a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” He later described it as “a very simple ban.”
“I don’t want them in my office. I don’t want them here. I would say the ban would go as far as you can,” Trump said from the Oval Office.
Obama said the issue of a free press was “foundational” at the event in Massachusetts.
“The free press, the idea that the government cannot discriminate against, or pick on, or bully, or exclude somebody because they don’t like the criticism that’s being leveled at them, that is a foundational issue,” the former president said.
“And so, I am not surprised that the current president wants to ban newscasts that are critical of him, because he’s that guy,” Obama added.
Obama pointed out that when he was president, he pushed for more press freedom in countries that repress the media.
Obama faced some questions about press access during his own time in the White House. At one point, aides briefly excluded Fox News from a group interview with an official; at another, he was criticized by the White House Correspondents Association for not providing photographs of a round of golf he played with Tiger Woods. The White House press corps remained generally united against these moves throughout.
In a press release earlier this week, the Trump White House sought to justify its ban against the three media outlets by citing those actions by the Obama administration, among others.
The three media outlets subject to the ban have sued the Trump administration to restore their access.
Obama also applauded the larger solidarity among media organizations. Major television networks, for instance, declined to replace CNN’s White House pool crew after the Trump administration barred the network from fulfilling its assigned duties on Monday.
“This one’s actually in the Constitution. It’s pretty straightforward, right? Free speech, there’s a reason why it’s the First Amendment,” Obama said on Monday.
“The issue is not the fact that (the ban) ultimately will be overturned. The issue is the brazenness with which any president could act like this, and the people in his or her own party not say, ‘No, you cannot do that. That’s not acceptable.’ That lack of guardrails is what I’m most concerned about.”
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