The White House and Donald Trump’s public communications have stopped citing the Wall Street Journal, Axios reported on Aug. 12. The move affects the official White House newsletter as well as Trump’s posts on his Truth Social platform. Axios said the shift began after the Journal published a July 17 article that examined Trump’s past ties to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. Since the story ran, neither the newsletter nor Trump’s social-media updates have linked to or referenced the Journal, breaking with a longstanding practice of highlighting favorable coverage from the newspaper.