Donald Trump's White House has discontinued delivery of print editions of The New York Times and The Washington Post, according to administration officials, and he has ordered all federal agencies to follow suit.

'Not renewing subscriptions across all federal agencies will be a significant cost saving – hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars will be saved,' White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham told The Wall Street Journal.

The White House's subscriptions ended Tuesday. It's unclear how the White House will be able to stop Cabinet agencies, VA hospitals and military bases from subscribing to two of America's most widely read newspapers.

Both offer free digital subscriptions to federal government employees and servicemen and women whose email addresses end in '.gov' or '.mil.'

'This is dumb. Just dumb,' a State Department official told DailyMail.com on Thursday. 'I don't know anyone under 60 who still reads the Post in print. Who does that?'

Donald Trump told Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity that he wanted to 'terminate' the New York Times and Washington Post, and he followed through by canceling the White House's hard-copy subscriptions

The president had said in an interview just three days ago that he no longer wanted to have hard copies of the two newspapers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

'We don't even want it in the White House anymore,' Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity, speaking of the Times. 'We're going to probably terminate that and The Washington Post. They're fake.'

Trump is an avid newspaper reader, but White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham confirmed to Politico that 'we won’t be renewing' the dead-tree editions.

The White House's other newspaper subscriptions are still active, including Financial Times, The Hill, the New York Post, Politico, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times and USA Today.

The president did not appear to be referring to the White House access Times and Post reporters enjoy, and no one at the White House has made a move to restrict West Wing access to the papers' online editions.

A Bloomberg reporter captured a photo on Thursday of a side table near the press secretary's office where newspapers are spread out daiy for staff to read. the Times and Post were not among them.

The president's comments about his desire to 'terminate' the papers drew the attention of an attorney representing two reporters whose White House press passes were suspended this year.

White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, pictured Thursday in an unrelated Fox News Channel interview, said the federal government will save 'hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars' when federal agencies stop getting the two newspapers the president most loves to hate

'More compelling evidence, indeed another confession, that @realdonaldtrump and his team engage in content- and viewpoint- discrimination regarding certain (indeed many) members of the White House press corps, in plain violation of the First Amendment,' attorney Ted Boutrous tweeted Monday night.

Boutrous argued in federal court on behalf of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta and Playboy writer Brian Karem after the administration withdrew their 'hard pass' credentials.

Trump frequently rails against reporters and news outlets he calls 'fake news.' The Times and the Post are frequent targets, along with CNN and MSNBC. But no one in the White House's press wing is safe from his biting criticism.