Trump would ban journalists and build a swimming pool in place of the White House press room

Donald Trump proposed to convert the White House press room into a swimming pool, banning journalists from the area. This idea was mentioned multiple times to his aide, Leavitt, who left his position on August 27. The concept of excluding the press from the White House first arose during Trump's first term. Historically, a swimming pool existed in that location, used by Franklin Roosevelt for health reasons, before being transformed into a press room during Nixon's presidency. Trump has previously taken concrete actions against certain media outlets, banning CNN, Politico, and MS Now journalists from the White House, citing their dissemination of false information, although a federal court blocked this order, allowing those journalists to return.