Reuters criticizes Trump's ban on Related Press reporters within the Oval Workplace, Air Power One

Darlene Superville, reporter of the Associated Press White House, and AP photographer Ben Curtis is told by a US President Donald Trump Administration that on February 15, 2025, by joining the Pool of the White House in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA, were refused.

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On Saturday, Reuters rejected the restrictions that were set up in the media of the White House after the Trump administration excluded the Associated Press from key rooms such as the Oval Office and Air Force One at the beginning of this week.

“Reuters stands at Associated Press and other media organizations that apply against the reports imposed on the AP for the independent editorial decisions of the AP,” says a statement by the Reuter Press team on X.

“Reuters believes that journalists should be free to report the news reliably, independently and without harassment or damage, wherever they are in the United States,” continued.

The comment takes place after the decision of the White House at the beginning of this week to ban all AP reporters from the Oval Office and the Air Force One after the news agency refused to recognize the decision of the Trump government, the name of the Golf of Mexico to change in the Gulf of America.

“The Associated Press continues to ignore the staff and cabinet secretary Taylor Budowich.

“While your right to irresponsible and dishonest reports is protected by the first change, she does not ensure that unreserved access to limited rooms such as the Oval Office and the Luftwaffe one will be submitted.”

Budowich added that the room occupied by the AP in the Oval Office and other limited rooms is opened to other reporters, although AP journalists and photographers can keep their registration information for the complex of the White House.

The correspondence association of the White House, which represents journalists who report on the US President, criticized the decision, called “unacceptable” and says that she is standing with the AP.

“The White House cannot determine how news organizations report the news, and working journalists should also punish because it is dissatisfied with the decisions of its editors,” said Eugene Daniels, President of the WHCA, in an explanation at the beginning of this week. “The move of the administration to exclude a reporter from the Associated Press from an official event that is now open to reporting on news is unacceptable.”

The AP, a global news agency that began more than a century ago in 1846, was part of the 13-member press pool of the White House, which regularly reports on the President's activities.