Reporters covering Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE will no longer travel in the Republican presidential nominee's motorcade, according to a new report.

Press pool organizers said the Secret Service is behind the decision, Politico said Tuesday.

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“We have communicated that this is an issue that the campaign should have spotted long ago and are vigorously protesting the decision,” the press pool's leaders said in an email.

“We have told the campaign that if they are truly committed to transparency than they should place the pool on Trump’s plane so it is a truly protective pool. They have not been responsive to that request.”

Politico on Monday said the Trump campaign was putting journalists in its motorcade. Reporters in the press pool would also follow Trump’s plane in a “chase” aircraft that would shadow it more closely.

The press pool's leaders, however, said Trump’s campaign told them the Secret Service rejected the plan.

The Secret Service advised Trump’s camp that it is stretched too thin amid “a heightened state of security” to keep the press pool’s plane safe.

The press pool will now have to deal with normal traffic while covering the billionaire, Politico said, increasing the chances that reporters may arrive late or miss Trump’s campaign events.

Trump has had an at-times contentious relationship with the media since launching his Oval Office bid last year.

Trump enraged media members last week, for example, by mocking their struggles to cover his rally in New Hampshire.

“I have really good news for you,” he told listeners on Sept. 15 in Laconia, N.H. "I just heard that the press is stuck on their airplane. They can’t get here. I love it.”