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The Associated Press has been having a meltdown for the last couple of days. Why? Because the White House is no longer allowing them into the press briefings or into news events held at the White House.
This is how they referred to the kerfuffle on Wednesday.
The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from an event in the Oval Office on Tuesday after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has ordered renamed the Gulf of America.
The reporter, whom the AP would not identify, tried to enter the White House event as usual Tuesday afternoon and was turned away. Later, a second AP reporter was barred from a late-evening event in the White House’s Diplomatic Reception Room.
The highly unusual ban, which Trump administration officials had threatened earlier Tuesday unless the AP changed the style on the Gulf, could have constitutional free-speech implications.
Julie Pace, AP’s senior vice president and executive editor, called the administration’s move unacceptable.
“It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism,” Pace said in a statement. “Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment.”
Read through that again. Forget about the AP refusing to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Read that last paragraph. The Associated Press wants all of us to believe that the entire body of “journalists” associated with the AP has always been independent and reports only the news without bias.
Except that we know the Associated Press is biased as all get out. They’ve shown that bias on multiple occasions throughout the years and that bias is generally directed towards Republicans and conservatives, while providing cover for the 2020 rioters. Case in point:
Since then the U.S. government has spied on conservative journalists, pressured social media outlets to censor reporting, and implemented rules to remove anti-Biden journalists from the briefing room. And the rest of the media sided with the government.
— Sunny (@sunnyright) February 13, 2025
2009 is a lifetime ago. pic.twitter.com/LL5gsGtsZ5
More recently, as of 2021, I pointed out what the AP refused to acknowledge, they gave office space to Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
Well, their tantrums continue. How DARE they be denied access! Don’t know you KNOW WHO WE ARE??!!
On Thursday, for the third day in a row, the White House prevented Associated Press reporters from attending official events, a spokesperson for the news organization confirmed to The Washington Post.
An AP reporter was blocked from attending two afternoon events in the Oval Office, including a swearing-in ceremony for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Later in the day, AP Executive Editor Julie Pace said in a statement that an AP reporter had also been prevented from attending an open news conference featuring President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which she called “a deeply troubling escalation of the administration’s continued efforts to punish The Associated Press for its editorial decisions.”
“This is now the third day AP reporters have been barred from covering the president — first as a member of the pool, and now from a formal press conference — an incredible disservice to the billions of people who rely on The Associated Press for nonpartisan news,” Pace said.
Nonpartisan. BWAHAHAHA!! They are going to run with that into all the walls and beyond. Well, now the White House Correspondents Association has gotten into the middle of this.
Strongly worded statements are back! https://t.co/36B3dNA72y
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 14, 2025
Guess what guys? Freedom of press means precisely that. What is NOT included in that is ACCESS. The AP and all the rest of the media can report on anything they want in any manner they choose. But what our First Amendment doesn’t give the media free rein at is unfettered access.
As Americans, each of us ALSO has the right to refuse to let the media in. Furthermore, no matter what they claim, even the President can tell the media to go pound sand. The WHCA has missed that memo by a country mile.
The Associated Press is whining that they’ve been denied access because REASONS and the Gulf of America. What they fail to realize is that it is much more than that.
Per this report from the Washington Post, how DARE the White House allow podcasters and bloggers to have seats in the White House press room or to travel to Europe with the Secretary of Defense for his meetings in Europe! Those darned upstarts!
WE ARE THE ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA!
That ladies and gentlemen is how the legacy media is rolling these days. Only THEY are allowed to report all the news. Only THEY are allowed to decide what is and what isn’t news. And only they are to be allowed access to everything whether we or President Trump likes it or not.
Well guys, thank you for playing! Your access, but NOT your freedom of the press, has been denied.
Feature Photo Credit: reporter with press pass via iStock, cropped and modified
Cameron says: It’s like the child star who became an alcoholic mess and is outside a club in his 30s saying “Do you know who I am?”
It’s wonderful. Most reporters deserve to be treated like vermin. Their tears nourish me.
Chad King says: It isn’t clear to me why the AP reporter can’t just watch on TV. No one is guaranteed the right to interrogate the President. If it were up to me, questions would be assigned by a random draw and limited to one simple question–with no follow ups. The President isn’t obligated to sit for a deposition by hack reporters. I do love how Trump keeps the camera off the reporters during the Oval Office gaggle. “Journalists” get to ask a question–not cross examine the President. Keep it up!
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