Trump hits out at US agency AP as 'radical left' media

Agence France-Presse

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1740110192991New Project (12).jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump dances at the end of a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 27, 2024. <em>Angela Weiss, AFP</em></span></span></span></div><p>WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump on Thursday called the Associated Press a &quot;radical left organization&quot; in his latest salvo in the fight over the US media mainstay&#x27;s use of the Gulf of Mexico for the renamed body of water.</p><p>Trump in his first month in office dubbed the area the &quot;Gulf of America&quot; and has restricted Associated Press (AP) journalists&#x27; access to the White House until the news agency obeys his order.</p><p>The White House has blocked AP journalists from Air Force One and the Oval Office, arguing that the agency was ignoring a lawful name change.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/2/17/mexico-threatens-to-sue-google-if-it-insists-on-using-gulf-of-america-0655">Mexico threatens to sue Google if it insists on using &#x27;Gulf of America&#x27;</a></div><p>&quot;We have a fight with one news organization, AP, a radical left organization — treats us all very badly — and they refuse to acknowledge that the Gulf formerly of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America,&quot; Trump said in a speech Thursday to the Republican Governor&#x27;s Association in the capital Washington.</p><p>&quot;We&#x27;re holding them out of any news conferences now. I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;ll get sued, and maybe they&#x27;ll win. Doesn&#x27;t matter. It&#x27;s just something that we feel strongly about,&quot; he added, without clarifying what he meant about the possible legal action.</p><p>The 180-year-old media organization has long been a pillar of US journalism and provides news to print, TV and radio outlets across the country.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/2/10/trump-signs-gulf-of-america-proclamation-aboard-air-force-one-0804">Trump signs &#x27;Gulf of America&#x27; proclamation aboard Air Force One</a></div><p>In a style note last month, AP noted that &quot;the Gulf of Mexico has carried that name for more than 400 years&quot; and said Trump&#x27;s executive order &quot;only carries authority within the United States.&quot;</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><strong><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wSLFX34OW8g?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></strong><br/></div>

<p>The White House has blocked AP journalists from Air Force One and the Oval Office, arguing that the agency was ignoring a lawful name change.</p>

The White House has blocked AP journalists from Air Force One and the Oval Office, arguing that the agency was ignoring a lawful name change.

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Trump hits out at US agency AP as 'radical left' media

Trump hits out at US agency AP as 'radical left' media

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Published Feb 21, 2025 11:57 AM PHT

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