The White House banned an Associated Press reporter from attending an executive-order signing in the Oval Office on Tuesday — in protest of the outlet’s style guidance on the Gulf of America, the news agency said.

“Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office,” the AP’s executive editor, Julie Pace, said in a statement.

“This afternoon AP’s reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing.”

The outlet manages the “Associated Press Stylebook,” which is widely used by media publications across the country for guidance on abbreviations, spelling, references and more.

Much to the chagrin of the White House, the AP has refrained from updating its style guidance to change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

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