CNN is reporting that several corporate media outlets are considering a boycott of the White House to support the Associated Press’s (AP) ongoing effort to promote misinformation about the “Gulf of America.”
The news comes after the White House banned AP reporters from covering three events in the Oval Office.
The Trump administration banned the reporters for repeatedly, and incorrectly, referring to the body of water on the coast of Louisiana the “Gulf of Mexico.”
As the AP, CNN, and other corporate media outlets should know, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring the body of water’s official name as the “Gulf of America.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that reporters using the incorrect name are pushing “lies.”
“Nobody has the right to go into the Oval Office and ask the president of the United States questions,” Leavitt told reporters.
“If we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable.”
🚨 #BREAKING: The Trump administration has officially BANNED the AP from the Oval Office and Air Force One after they refuse to stop peddling fake news about the Gulf of America
GOOD! Now ban Kaitlyn Collins and CNN
Karoline Leavitt was crystal clear this week reiterating her… pic.twitter.com/Cy0MvzItux
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 14, 2025
CNN’s Brian Stelter wrote on Friday that many of his media allies have suggested a “mass boycott” of White House coverage.
Stelter, who falsely claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation,” warned that a boycott would allow “Breitbart and One America News to take their places.”
“Many readers have asked me what other news outlets are doing to support The AP,” Stelter said in his newsletter.
“Some have suggested a mass boycott is in order.
“Consider the possibility, however, that the Trump White House wants this fight.
“Wants journalists to act like opponents instead of observers.
“If the entire press pool skipped a Trump photo op in solidarity with The AP, wouldn’t the White House welcome Breitbart and One America News to take their places?”
“My sense is that The AP’s editors and their peers at other media institutions are having backchannel conversations about what to do,” he continued.
“‘We have to be strategic,’ one top editor told me, and keep covering the White House without just accepting how The AP is being treated.”
“The AP, meanwhile, is moving ahead with a potential legal challenge,” Stelter added.
“As one staffer remarked, ‘it’s hard to come up with a clearer case of viewpoint discrimination.’
“The AP, this staffer said, would argue that ‘motive has already been established’ through Karoline Leavitt’s comments to Kaitlan Collins at the press briefing on Wednesday.”
As Slay News reported at the time, Trump designated the “Gulf of America” name change in January.
Google and Apple updated their maps to reflect the new Gulf of America designation.
However, the AP remains stubborn and continues to spread misinformation by calling it the “Gulf of Mexico.”
The AP’s decision to spurn the name change is contrary to its past updates to its style guide.
In 2020, for instance, it updated its style guide of “black” people to “Black” people to align with the Democrats’ agenda.
