The White House told AP to call the body of water the Gulf of America or they would be banned from an event at the Oval Office.
Donald Trump and APThe Associated Press was shut out of an executive order signing on Tuesday because of their refusal to call the body of water to the west of Florida the “Gulf of America.”
“It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism,” Julie Pace, the executive editor of AP, . “Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment.”The White House informed AP on Tuesday that if the news agency did not start referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, they would be banned from accessing an event in the Oval Office. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
AP said there are other places they refer to by two names, like the Gulf of California, which is its name in the United States, while Mexico refers to it as the Sea of Cortez.to revert the name of North America’s tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, to Mount McKinley, AP followed along because Mount McKinley is only in the United States, and “Trump has the authority to change federal geographical names within the country.
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