The Associated Press on Monday said its journalists were barred from covering an Oval Office event featuring President Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in defiance of a court injunction.
“Our journalists were blocked from the Oval Office today,” a spokesperson for the wire service said. “We expect the White House to restore AP’s participation in the pool as of today, as provided in the injunction order.”
A federal judge last week ordered the Trump administration to restore The Associated Press’s access to key White House spaces after it banned AP reporters over the outlet’s refusal to use “Gulf of America” in its widely-cited stylebook.
The White House recently took control of deciding which outlets are allowed in the White House Press pool, a small group of reporters covering and traveling with the president, a privilege previously held by the White House Correspondents’ Association.
The AP was not included in Monday’s press pool, the first day the judge’s order went into effect.
