AP Reporter barred from Oval Office because AP Did Not Recognize Gulf of America

[Norbert]

The idiot is always butthurt.

The Associated Press on Tuesday said the White House barred its reporter from an event at the Oval Office because the news agency would not start using "Gulf of America" to describe the Gulf of Mexico.

A statement said an AP reporter was not allowed to attend the signing of an executive order in the afternoon. U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who is in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), were at the event.

"It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism. 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," AP executive editor Julie Pace said in the statement...

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/reporter-banned-from-oval-office-event-over-editorial-decision-not-to-use-gulf-of-america-ap-says/ar-AA1yQOBX?ocid=BingNewsSerp

[Irish_Dem]

1. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

[underpants]

2. Ministry of Truth

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.
— Part II, Chapter IX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_in_Nineteen_Eighty-Four

[Moostache]

3. Room 101 awaits. (n/t)

[Skittles]

4. fascist fucks are SOOOOOO easily triggered

yes INDEED

[MustLoveBeagles]

6. They are the real snowflakes

[Skittles]

7. damn straight

they cannot tolerate diversity, equity, inclusion, decency, the rule of law, etc

fucking SNOWFLAKES

[Brenda]

5. Why the fuck doesn't the press ask WHAT DOGE IS?

There is no DOGE. Chump cannot just claim it is a new department. He cannot change the name of The Gulf of Mexico.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. The White House apparently wants The Associated Press to use the Trump-approved name for the Gulf of Mexico. If it sound

The White House apparently wants The Associated Press to use the Trump-approved name for the Gulf of Mexico. If it sounds Orwellian, that's because it is.

The White House's interest in 'Gulf of America' reaches ridiculous new level www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— News Hub - A Home for Better News (@thenewshub.bsky.social) 2025-02-12T19:05:46.958Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/associated-press-says-white-house-barred-reporter-gulf-america-policy-rcna191823

After the president was sworn in — he included a “Gulf of America” reference in his inaugural remarks — his administration started leaning into the bizarre rhetorical campaign, forcing agencies to use the Trump-approved phrase.

But it now appears the broader effort is extending beyond just governmental departments. NBC News reported:

The Associated Press said the White House violated the First Amendment today when it barred an AP reporter from entering an executive order signing. The AP said the White House restricted the reporter’s access after the news organization did not update its editorial standards renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”

In other words, one of the nation’s largest news organizations was told that it was effectively being punished for calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico. If The Associated Press’ concerns are correct, the White House had some kind of trade in mind: If the AP wants access, it should use the phrase the president likes.....

The day after the alleged Oval Office incident involving an AP journalist, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt faced additional questions about what transpired. It did not go well.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lhytrfr3l62p

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While the controversy surrounding The Associated Press is important in its own right, there’s also a larger concern about the White House and its approach to language. As The New York Times summarized:

Of all the changes underway in Washington, one of the deepest has to do with the very language that is spoken here. In order to remake the government, President Trump and his administration are remaking the language used to describe the government. An entire lexicon of progressive terminology nurtured by the last administration has been squelched. In its place is a new vocabulary, honed by the president and echoed by his many imitators in the capital. It is a vocabulary containing many curious uses of doublespeak.

We’re no longer just talking about a twisted form of conservative political correctness, with Republicans calling the estate tax the “death tax,” while labeling big corporations “job creators.” Those phrases are part of a partisan game that’s silly, but largely inconsequential.....

If all of this sounds rather Orwellian, that's because it is

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. The AP's exec editor Julie Pace sent a letter to the White House today objecting over AP reporters

Link to tweet