The Trump White House is not backing down when it comes to the Associated Press (AP) and the media outlet’s refusal to refer to the gulf formerly known as Mexico as the “Gulf of America.” As RedState has been reporting, the White House disinvited the AP from participating in the White House press pool, thus restricting AP reporters from accessing gaggles in the Oval Office.
During the Biden administration, not having access to the Oval Office wouldn’t have been much of a penalty to a media organization as there wasn’t likely to be anything particularly noteworthy or even coherent coming from the previous president as he went about his business. Everything is different, of course, with Donald Trump, and many of the more important soundbites coming from the White House now originate in the Oval Office. Thus, the AP has been well and truly spanked for not…
