'Keep them out'
President Trump is blacklisting a news outlet for using a name he doesn’t like.
It’s that simple.
“We’re going to keep them out,” he said of The Associated Press, “until such time as they agree that it’s the Gulf of America.”
The AP is not going to give into Trump’s demand. The AP can’t. It has very good reasons for continuing to write “Gulf of Mexico” while noting Trump’s “Gulf of America” decision. More importantly, AP editors know that this is about more than one body of water. The news outlet is taking a principled position that independent news outlets can’t let a president dictate what a location is called all around the world.
But what about every other outlet?
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