White House Blocks Reporter From Oval Office Over ‘Gulf Of America’ Battle, AP Says

The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from entering the Oval Office on Tuesday over the AP’s refusal to use “Gulf of America,” the Associated Press said in a statement on Tuesday evening.

The Associated Press crafts a stylebook that many newsrooms across the world religiously adhere to — for example, the AP style guide recommends using “gender-affirming care” to describe transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers, even when discussing minors, and to use the phrase “pregnant people” and  “people seeking abortions” to describe women seeking to abort their unborn babies.

Recently the AP made the decision not to adhere to President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, arguing in a January 23 statement that the Gulf of America shares borders between the U.S. and Mexico and that Trump’s order “only carries authority within the United States.”