Posted on 02/11/2025 4:18:04 PM PST by ransomnote
The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from an event in the Oval Office on Tuesday after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has ordered renamed the Gulf of America.
The reporter tried to enter the White House event as usual Tuesday afternoon and was turned away, AP executives said. The highly unusual ban, which Trump administration officials had threatened earlier Tuesday unless the AP changed the style on the Gulf, could have constitutional free-speech implications.
Julie Pace, senior vice president and executive editor of The Associated Press, called the administration’s move unacceptable.
“It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism,” Pace said in a statement. “Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment.”
The Trump administration made no immediate announcements about the move, and there was no indication any other journalists were affected. Trump has long had an adversarial relationship with the media. On Friday, the administration ejected a second group of news organizations from Pentagon office space.
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Winning!
AP = Agitation and Propaganda
The administration needs to stomp on them any which we they can—classic enemy media.
AP is CIA Marxist Globo
They hate it when you use their own tactics against them.
EMBRACE THE SUCK, JULIE!!
Bravo
Give me a break! AP and independent news? LOL
“Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment.”
No, it does not. It is his office.
Great. Now follow up barring “Black” (vs “white”).
How much USAID graft went to the AP over, say, just the last 10 years?
They have a First Amendment right to publish whatever they want; they don’t have any First Amendment right to attend White House press briefings.
“It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism,”
They still expect people to believe they’re independent and unbiased.
AP having a bad week. All its USAID graft lost, too.
They never worried about the First Amendment when conservative journalists were shut out of those press briefings....
Hey AP, you and your fellow fools started this name change and word m*****bation game. Live with it, Obamaholes. Those of us in the productive side of life are lovin’ it.
Exactly, AP can still say anything they want. The just cannot have access to his office or him unless he wishes it, nothing first amendment about that at all. It is a privilege to have access to the President, not a right.
They really are delulu and a bunch of fart sniffers believing their own claptrap.
FAFO
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