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AP Says Trump White House Blocked Reporter From Event Over News Org’s Policy to Not Adopt ‘Gulf of America’ Name

Apple and Google maps now refer to the Gulf of Mexico as 'the Gulf of America' following President Trump's executive order on the name change.

“It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism,” Pace said in a statement. Trump, on his first day in office for a second term as U.S. president, signed an executive order directing the Secretary of the Interior to adopt the name “Gulf of America” to replace the long-held name of the body of water “extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba.” The AP, in a style guide decision announced last month, said it would continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico “while acknowledging the new name Trump has chosen.

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