The White House on Friday said it will bar the Associated Press from future events in the Oval Office and Air Force One over AP's refusal to obey President Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

The White House said Friday it was indefinitely blocking Associated Press journalists from Air Force One and the Oval Office, escalating a row with the US news agency over its refusal to call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America.

The White House says the Associated Press will be banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One over its refusal to use the term ‘Gulf of America.’