Trump’s AP Ban Is an Authoritarian Power Move Disguised as Policy

And over a "renaming" at that....

The Trump administration’s blacklisting of the Associated Press (AP) from an Oval Office event is more than a petty grudge—it’s a deliberate attempt to control the press. The White House barred AP for refusing to adopt Trump’s preferred language after he signed an executive order attempting to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” (AP News)