The White House is defending its decision to prevent the Associated Press from covering President Donald Trump after the wire service issued guidance that it would not call the Gulf of Mexico by its new name,

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended a decision by the White House on Tuesday to keep The Associated Press out of the pool of reporters allowed inside the Oval Office to cover an

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that the “Gulf of America” is “a fact,” after being questioned over the White House blocking the Associated Press from attending two of President Trump’s press availabilities.