French journalists covering Monday’s meeting between Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron pushed to have a Paris-based Associated Press reporter ask the first question at a press conference, defying the White House’s decision to shut the AP out of official events.
Earlier this month, the White House began denying the AP’s access to Trump and other officials at Air Force One, the White House briefing room, and other events because it hasn’t complied with the Trump administration’s unilateral renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, with the AP’s influential stylebook noting the administration’s policies aren’t recognized internationally.
