The White House had blocked an Associated Press journalist from a news conference with two major world leaders.

At a press conference, Trump defended banning the Associated Press from the White House: “I just say that we're going to keep them out until such time as they agree that it's the Gulf of America.”

The AP says in its stylebook that the Gulf of Mexico has carried that name for more than 400 years. As a global news agency, the AP says it will refer to the gulf by its original