Two weeks before Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term, he said that he wanted to change the name of the “Golf of Mexico” in the “Golf America”.
On his first official day he returned an executive order, which was partly specified The “In recognition of this flourishing economic resource and its critical importance for the economy and its people of our country, I guess that it is officially renamed America’s golf.” Two weeks later there was a “Golf of America Day”.
While many news agencies adapted their terminology accordingly, the Associated Press did not belong among them on the Terrain that “the Gulf of Mexico has had this name for more than 400 years”. This led to the Trump White House blocked its access to the Oval Office and the Air Force One for an indefinite period, while maintaining their access to the white house area, including the briefing room.
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On Monday we learned more about the experienced reporter Marc Caputo why the White House pulled a line in the sand with the associated press on this topic, and it has one a lot to do With the way you have conveniently adapted your style book over the years to record the left dogma:
By staging Trump, he strengthens Republican and conservative criticism that the AP StylbookA first reference for most US news organizations, shapes political dialogue by liberal words and phrases regarding GenderPresent immigrationPresent Racing And Law enforcement.
Taylor Budowich, deputy chief of staff of the White House, explained her position:
“This is not just about the golf of America,” Taylor Budowich, deputy chief of staff of the White House, told Axios. “This is about AP, in contrast to the traditional and deeply staffed beliefs of many Americans and many people around the world, the language is about AP.”
President Trump’s decision to limit the access of AP reportershttps://t.co/h7hjrsy44r
– Marc Caputo (@Marcaputo) February 17, 2025
There was also this that was not mentioned in history:
Look at what the AP corresponds to behind the scenes. https://t.co/pohn80rs9h pic.twitter.com/elkn1esnxl
– Steve Gast (@steveguest) February 14, 2025
I will soon suspect that the Associated Press is a judge a la, what today’s CNN reporter from Associated Press, Jim Acosta, will bring to a judge a la 2018 unfortunate incident With Acosta and a juvenile intern who only tried to do her job.
Like Acosta, the AP can ultimately be successful in order to force a change to the status quo, at least as far as press access is concerned. In the meantime, Trump and his team have a gigantic problem with the media outlet that they are really not neutral observers and that they are recovering current (and past) events and not for some were time.
