President Donald Trump defended barring the Associated Press from the Oval Office and other high-profile, limited media events until it recognized the “Gulf of America” in its coverage, his first public comments on his administration’s increasing public hostility toward the wire service.

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

AP reporters and photographers travel with the president virtually everywhere as part of a press “pool” and have for decades.