Trump comments after court ruling orders the return of Afaaq News to the White House

- US President Donald Trump resumed his criticism of the networks Afaq News and MSD NOW on Friday, claiming that their viewership is extremely low, following a US court ruling that overturned his ban on three major American media outlets from entering the White House. Trump wrote in a post on his official account on his platform "Truth Social" on Friday: "The viewership of Afaq News and MSDNC has dropped significantly, and the main reason is the lack of credibility!

They only report negative news about a man who won the election by a landslide, achieving victory in all seven swing states, in the popular vote, and in 86% of the counties, and so on." Trump added, speaking about himself: "His popularity has increased thanks to the unprecedented success our country is achieving on the global stage and domestically.

To show how false the channels Afaq News and MSDNC are, they refused today to cover one of the biggest and most beautiful events the country has witnessed in many years, which is the arrival of the esteemed Chinese President Xi Jinping and his beautiful wife, Mrs. Peng, to the White House." Trump went on to say: "The event was wonderful, actually prepared for television, but because they are channels that spread 'fake news', and because they realized how great the event was, they did not want credit to go to Trump, so they refused to be present there.

This is why these two channels suffer from extremely low viewership rates. The official dinner tonight at the White House, in honor of President Xi, will be amazing!

A federal court issued a ruling on Thursday requiring the White House to allow journalists from the networks Afaq News and MSD NOW and the Politico website to enter, after the court found that the restrictions imposed by the administration contradicted established legal precedents. This decision is considered a major victory for press freedom, despite the possibility of legal appeals or further confrontations in the future regarding media access.

Federal Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to restore access for the news networks Afaq News and MS NOW and the website Politico to the White House. The federal judge's order came after the three American news outlets were barred from entering the White House by President Trump.

In the documents submitted to the court and during a hearing held on Wednesday, the attorney for the media organizations stated that the ban contradicts previous court rulings, violates due process, and was issued merely out of Trump's disdain for those journalists.