The Associated Press accused the Trump administration of illegally blocking it from covering President Donald Trump’s remarks in the Oval Office on Monday.
The outlet was initially blocked in connection with its refusal to comply with the president’s executive order renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America” in its stylebook. Exclusion on such a basis would violate a recent court order that ruled the Trump administration could not block the AP from accessing press events over disagreements surrounding “Gulf of America” language.
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