The American Press Agency Associated Press (AP) announced Friday that it demanded three members of the Donald Trump administration after being vetoed from the Oval Office and the presidential plane Air Force One for not complying with the directive of calling the Gulf of America to the Gulf to the Gulf from Mexico.
“The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words are no longer the subject of reprisals by the government. The Constitution does not allow the Government to control freedom of expression, ”says that environment.
In his style guide, AP decided to continue calling the Gulf of Mexico “by its original name”, still mentioning the new name chosen by Trump, since it is a body of water that shares border with Mexico and Cuba.
The White House formally blocked access to the Oval Office and Air Force One on February 14. “We are very proud of this country and we want it to be the Gulf of America,” Tuesday said Tuesday.
The demand of the agency, of 18 pages and presented before a federal court in Washington DC, alleges that they have decided to take this step to claim their right to editorial independence and prevent the Executive from coaccioning journalists so that they use only a language approved by it.
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Trump signed the executive order to change the name to Gulf of America on January 20, the first day of his return to power. Subsequently he appointed on February 9 as ‘Gulf Day of America’.
AP’s complaint is directed concretely against the president’s head of the president, Susie Wiles, his number two, Taylor Budowich, and the White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt.
This Thursday, more than thirty American media asked the Government to restore the participation of AP in presidential events and that “the editorial point of view” is not taken into account when limiting access to the White House.
Among the signatories are Fox News and Newsmax television chains, conservative dye, as well as other large newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The Wall Street Journal or The Atlantic.
AP highlighted when informing about his complaint that this Friday Trump referred to that agency as “radical left lunatics”: it is “a third category company with a first name,” he said about it, the main country and founded in 1846.
With EFE information
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