The Associated Press is getting kicked out of the White House, but this is hardly a random act of vindictiveness from President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration recently banned AP from the Oval Office and from traveling with Trump on Air Force One after the news agency announced that it would refrain from changing the name “Gulf of Mexico” to the new, lawful name “Gulf of America.”
AP had no problem making recent name changes to a location based on the whim of a government, namely Ukraine’s spelling of Kyiv. But not this time. Curious, right?
“Freedom of speech is a pillar of American democracy,” an AP spokesman said in a statement to Fox News. “The actions taken to restrict AP’s coverage of presidential events because of how we refer to a geographic location chip away at this important right enshrined in the U.S. Constitution for all…
