Article in The Washington Post by Eric Wemple, 3/23/25

Headline:  “The Justice Department’s new argument: Trump is a snowflake”

“Why did Trump boot the Associated Press from the White House press pool? That’s an easy one.”

“President Donald Trump defaulted to his usual spiel when he discussed the expulsion of the Associated Press from the White House press pool. The wire service’s Stylebook declined to adopt Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the ‘Gulf of America.’  ‘It’s called the Gulf of America now; it’s not called the Gulf of Mexico any longer,’ said Trump in a Feb. 18 news conference, a week after the expulsion.

“Piling on, the president also said that the AP has been ‘very, very wrong on the election, on Trump and the treatment of Trump,’ an apparent reference to his defeat in the 2020 election. That, of course, was a lie.

“The truth behind the sidelining of the AP, however, emerged from a hearing last Thursday at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In that charged forum, a Justice Department lawyer argued that Trump was a snowflake who needed safe spaces, free from entities like the fearsome AP. . . ”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/23/trump-ap-autonomy-access/