JUST IN: AP Blocked from Trump's Oval Office Press Gaggle -- Ignoring Recent Court Ruling [View all]
Source: MEDIAite
Apr 14th, 2025, 12:47 pm
Despite a recent injunction reinstating access, an AP spokesperson confirmed their journalists were denied access to an Oval Office press event on Monday.
“Our journalists were blocked from the Oval Office today. We expect the White House to restore AP’s participation in the pool as of today, as provided in the injunction order,” as first reported by The Washington Post’s Jeremy Barr via social media. President Donald Trump took questions from assembled White House press corps members in an unusually contentious gaggle while sitting next to El Salvador President Nayib Bukele.
The White House has refused universal access to the Associated Press over the news service’s refusal to call the body of water south of the nation long known as the “Gulf of Mexico” the “Gulf of America,” as Trump has insisted via Executive Order. AP has insisted that it is an international concern and that many of its clients are nations that do not abide by Trump’s nationalistic fiat.
On Tuesday, a federal judge ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, on April 8th, citing First Amendment grounds that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/just-in-ap-blocked-from-trumps-oval-office-press-gaggle-ignoring-recent-court-ruling/
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