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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump dances at the end of a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 27, 2024.
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Thursday called the Associated Press (AP) a “radical left organization” in his latest salvo in the fight over the US media mainstay’s use of the Gulf of Mexico for the renamed body of water.
Trump in his first month in office dubbed the area the “Gulf of America” and has restricted AP journalists’ access to the White House until the news agency obeys his order.
The White House has blocked AP journalists from Air Force One and the Oval Office, arguing that the agency was ignoring a lawful name change.
“We have a fight with one news organization, AP, a radical left organization — treats us all very badly — and they refuse to acknowledge that the Gulf formerly of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America,” Trump said in a speech Thursday to the Republican Governor’s Association in the capital Washington.
