The Associated Press rebuked the White House after one outlet reporter said he was banned from covering an executive order signed Tuesday afternoon.
Journalists ban AP said in a statementIt was related to the refusal to “rename the editorial standards to President Donald Trump's executive order and to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.”
“As a global news organization, the Associated Press informs billions of people around the world every day of fact-based, nonpartisan journalism,” the Associated Press said. “We are wary of the Trump administration's punishment of the Associated Press with independent journalism.”
Announced on February 9th over the weekend, the president will be the first “Gulf of America Day” that came after an executive order that began moving on to the process of renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
The president previously gave the interior department 30 days, taking “all appropriate actions” and making changes.
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in Guidance from the AP on January 23rd In Trump's executive order, the outlet said it would mention the Gulf of Mexico “while accepting the original name and the new name that Trump chose.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“Restricting access to an oval office based on the content of the AP's speech not only severely hinders public access to independent news, but is clearly a violation of the initial amendment,” the outlet said. said in a statement Tuesday.
