Posted on 02/12/2025 5:39:37 AM PST by karpov
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, whom the AP would not identify, tried to enter the White House event as usual Tuesday afternoon and was turned away. Later, a second AP reporter was barred from a late-evening event in the White House Diplomatic Room.
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, AP’s senior vice president and executive editor, 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 moves, 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.
Before his Jan. 20 inauguration, Trump announced plans to change the Gulf of Mexico’s name to the “Gulf of America” — and signed an executive order to do so as soon as he was in office. Mexico’s president responded sarcastically and others noted that the name change would probably not affect global usage.
Besides the United States, the body of water — named the Gulf of Mexico for more than 400 years — also borders Mexico.
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No one gives a 💩 about AP media. Cry more.
Denying access is not legally significant. “Punishment” is just a slogan here.
Trump can handle those MSM clowns any way he chooses.
AP elected, itself, to lie to the public.
Exclusion is insufficient.
Removal of all licenses, permits, contracts, etc.
must now follow.
Silly rabbit. You missed the whole point. AP is defiantly denying the President’s authority to change the name. They are not reporting the news.
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I will say that it has been the media that has long had an adversarial relationship with Trump. They started it.
That would mean EVERYONE would be allowed in. They aren't. The perp is permitted to scream all he wants - outside.
I love pettiness when it has to do with mediots. Is suing DNCBS for 10 Billion petty?
AP reports on AP!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Liars lie.
So...what IS the style?
Disagree. After all I have suffered at the hands of liberals in jobs (especially public schools) telling me what I could and could not say, I can not write here what I would do to them now (and to you) after opposing me then spewing their wrong/filth everywhere. I have simply had all I can take. And, I know you don’t believe that.
AP is the enemy
AP is bad
It doesn’t raise any first amendment concerns. The government isn’t prosecuting the AP for anything. They are not owed automatic entree into every or indeed any press conference.
I noticed nobody claimed it was a first amendment violation when Obama barred many conservative journalists from Air Force one, from the White House, etc.
Well what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
“Renaming the Gulf of Mexico accomplishes nothing”
Methinks you might want to study up, before making such a ludicrous statement.
Concrete is cement
Any torch is a blowtorch
“””Renaming the Gulf of Mexico accomplishes nothing, and punishing organizations for not going along with the name change is petty and raises 1st Amendment concerns.”””
Nonsense. The AP is free to write whatever it wants. He did not take that away. He simply did not allow the access. The same thing Biden did to conservative news agencies.
Maybe they should sing their questions in the vein of a singing telegram. Or maybe they should stand in the middle of the street and cite the news like the news reader in "Rome".
True, Trump speaks more to the press than any other president, esp the past resident.
FAFO
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