Steve Thompson PhD<p>White House bans the AP indefinitely over the use of ‘Gulf of Mexico’ </p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/media/white-house-ap-ban-air-force-one-oval-office-gulf-of-mexico/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2025/02/14/media/white</span><span class="invisible">-house-ap-ban-air-force-one-oval-office-gulf-of-mexico/index.html</span></a></p><p>Trump White House said Friday that The Associated Press is banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely.</p><p>The AP, one of the world’s biggest news outlets, was singled out by the White House earlier this week over three words: “Gulf of Mexico.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AssociatedPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssociatedPress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GulfOfMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GulfOfMexico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whitehouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whitehouse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AF1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AF1</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a></p>