The Associated Press has filed suit against three White House officials responsible for banning the organization’s reporters from the Oval Office and other spaces including the president’s aircraft in retaliation for the wire service’s refusal to fully acquiesce to President Donald Trump’s push to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

We are going to keep them out,” Trump said Tuesday, unless the wire service agrees to make the switch to the “Gulf of America.”

Lago, US President Donald Trump, on February 19, highlighted the reasons for banning the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One.

"The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government," the AP said in its lawsuit.