The Trump administration and the AP have been at odds over the wire service's refusal to comply with the president's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The AP Stylebook is the standard used in newsrooms across the country and most of the world. Google Maps and Apple Maps have switched to the term Gulf of America.

The Associated Press remains excluded from White House Events because "it just refuses to go with what the law is" around Gulf of Mexico name change.