Restricting Associated Press access to the Oval Office and Air Force One ranks as spite of a credible source of news during a perilous time for independent journalism.

The White House barred an Associated Press reporter and photographer from boarding the presidential airplane Friday for a weekend trip with Donald Trump, saying the news agency’s stance on how to refer to the Gulf of Mexico was to blame for the exclusion.

NYT columnist David Brooks said he understood why the Trump administration barred the AP from the Oval office and Air Force One, despite being appalled by it.

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The White House is citing the news outlet's decision declining to recognize the Trump administration's name change from Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.

The White House has blocked the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One because the news organization has refrained from renaming "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America."

The barring came after the news outlet refused to recognize the Trump administration’s decision to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

The White House on Friday said it will bar the Associated Press from future events in the Oval Office and Air Force One, over the AP's refusal to obey President Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

The Trump administration barred the Associated Press from Air Force One and the White House's Oval Office on Friday, citing the wire service's reluctance to refer to the Gulf of Mexico by the administration's preferred term: Gulf of America .

President Donald Trump's White House has banned The Associated Press from accessing key press areas after the independent news outlet declined to mimic the administration's 'preferred language' for an

The White House says the Associated Press will be banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One over its refusal to use the term ‘Gulf of America.’