The White House has indefinitely vetoed journalists from the American news agency Associated Press (AP) of the oval office and the presidential aircraft Air Force One for using the name of Gulf of Mexico instead of Gulf of America.
The main spokesman for the president of the United States, Taylor Budowich, has said in the social network X that although AP has the right to Inform “irresponsibly and dishonest” By virtue of the first amendment, this does not entitle “access without restrictions on limited spaces such as the oval office or the Air Force One”.
“From now on, that space will open to the many thousands of journalists who have been forbidden to cover these intimate areas of the administration. Associated Press’s journalists and photographers will retain their credentials for the White House complex“He added.
This occurs only hours after the Trump Haya administration denied a journalist’s access From the American news agency to the press conference held between Trump and the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
The White House already defended the veto to another reporter from the news agency this week for not using the name of Gulf of America and questioned that there are media that do not use this geographical denomination When there are already companies like Apple or Google that recognize it.
“If we see that the media in this room spread lies We will demand accounts and It is a fact that the mass of water that is in front of the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America, “spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt said at a press conference.
The executive editor of the news agency, Julie Pace, has denounced that the White House had asked the media “Align your editorial standards with the Executive Order” of Trump that renamed the Gulf of Mexico.
For its part, the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) has assured that these “reprisals” against AP “undermine the declared commitment of the US president with freedom of expression.” “These actions follow a Dead and penalty pattern to the press On the part of the current administration and are unacceptable, “said the executive director of the CPJ, Jodie Ginsberg on Friday, in a statement.
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