White House bans AP reporter

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The White House bars an AP reporter from the Oval Office after the agency refuses to adopt Trump’s renaming of the “Gulf of Mexico.”  #GulfofAmerica #GulfofMexico

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00:00Now, the White House banned an Associated Press reporter from entering the Oval Office

00:06last night over the news agency's decision to keep using the name of Gulf of Mexico.

00:13It comes as President Trump renamed the coastline the Gulf of America.

00:18Two unidentified journalists were turned away from the press evening, with a second AP staff

00:24member later blocked from the White House diplomatic room.

00:28AP's senior vice president and executive editor has called the move unacceptable and

00:34accused the Trump administration of violating the First Amendment.

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