Monday, March 24, 2025

Associated Press Files Suit Against Trump Administration Over Ban from White House Coverage

It’s the Gulf of Mexico.

That’s everywhere except in the tiny mind of Donald Trump, who arbitrarily changed the name to Gulf of America. He bullied Google and Apple to use the name on their maps.

But the Associated Press said no. So Trump banned them from covering the White House.

It’s total breach of the 1st Amendment. Now the AP has filed suit against the Trump administration.

This won’t be the last lawsuit against Trump from a news organization. The Pentagon is also making it very difficult to cover them, or for the press assigned there to do their jobs properly.

Read the complaint here.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25541398/ap-vs-budowich.pdf

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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