(Updated 15 February 2025 and 2 May 2025)-- Trump Administration Bars the Esteemed and Well-Established Associated Press from Reporting in the Oval Office or Air Force One... This Cannot Be Done

Trump Administration Bars the Esteemed and Well-Established Associated Press from Reporting in the Oval Office or Air Force One... This Cannot Be Done

                    full article written by Ben Bussewitz

The Trump Administration is tightening its grip on the free press, banning one of the most-undisputed, acclaimed, and recognized names in journalism from being in the Oval Office or reporting on Air Force One.

This is not the way the free press should be treated.  The Associated Press disagreed with the way in which the White House was renaming historical places, the Gulf of Mexico in particular, and refused to write the-- wrong name-- for it, which the Trump Administration was aimed at ushering in.

According to the Guaridan:

Budowich [the White House deputy chief of staff] said he recognized that the Associated Press’s reporting was covered by the US constitution’s first amendment, which provides for the freedoms of speech and press. But he maintained that “does not ensure their privilege of unfettered access to limited spaces, like the Oval Office and Air Force One”.

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This is true-- and the basis for why the Associated Press is now unable to be in those two aforementioned places is because-- the White House disagrees with its honest reporting.

The White House is basically, exactly, saying to the Associated Press: "Because you do not agree with us, you cannot report on us."

Another point: The oceans are international waters.  The Gulf of Mexico is contiguous and part of the Atlantic Ocean.  Therefore, this is out of the United States jurisdiction to rename.

Another point: Amerigo Vespucci in the sixteenth century mapped out and plotted the shores of America, an Italian explorer, who proved Christopher Columbus' hypothesis false that the eastern shore of the Americas was the western entrance to the Far East, the western entrance to Asia.  And we named North America and South America after Vespucci, along with the United States of America.  Isn't that sufficient?  Then why would the Trump Administration rename the Gulf of Mexico, 'America Gulf'?  Isn't America simply, decorated enough?  Well, at least if it is named the America Gulf, something no one in the world wants other than the "Trump Administration," not even the majority of the American Government, at least, you could say, Mexico is one of our North American trade partners, and Canada is one of our North American trading partners, and thus, we can celebrate continental unity!

Updated 2 May 2025

Further Addendum:  If the 'Trump Administration' reckons that the international waterway, the Gulf of Mexico is, "America Gulf," they could just go on in that logic and basis of false and fictional and myopic, and criminal, analysis, in adding in: <<and Mexico is 'America's Mexico.'>>  They could!  You could think it was their plan.  It would fit perfectly with their, well, criminal-in-every-way of logic and basis of false and fictional and myopic claim ("America Gulf"), of which renders it baseless.

And then they attacked the Free Press.

For more on the courageous fight to continue the free press and honest dialogue between citizens, head to this article by According to Time.