After losing in court about The Associated Press's access to the presidency, the White House announced a new media rule on Tuesday. This rule greatly limits how news agencies that serve media around the world can access Donald Trump. This is the newest way the new government is trying to control how the media reports on what it does.

This decision would prevent the AP and other wire services, which reach billions of readers via thousands of news organisations, from operating. It follows a judicial ruling that the White House had infringed upon the organisation's freedom of speech by prohibiting it due to disagreement with the outlet's refusal to rename the Gulf of Mexico.

According to people who have seen the plan, the White House has described a new rule for press coverage in small places like the Oval Office and Air Force One. They also said that press secretary Karoline Leavitt will finally decide who gets to ask her boss questions.

The White House remained unresponsive to inquiries for commentary late Tuesday.

A federal judge recently determined that the White House had improperly retaliated against the Associated Press for its refusal to alter the name it used for the Gulf of Mexico, by barring its journalists and photographers from covering events. U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden mandated that the administration afford the AP the same treatment as other news organizations.

After the White House ignored McFadden's decision and kept the ban on AP when Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele met with reporters, a new policy was shared with certain journalists.

For a considerable time, the White House Correspondents Association has managed the pool for events with restricted capacity, consistently including reporters from the wire services AP, Reuters, and Bloomberg, alongside a single print reporter chosen rotationally from over 30 news organisations.

The White House announced that it will consolidate wire service reporters with print journalists for two designated slots, resulting in approximately three dozen reporters vying for limited regular access.

Even with the changes, the White House stated that Trump's press secretary will still have the power to choose who is in the pool. The new rule says reporters will also be allowed in, no matter what opinions their news outlets express.

Lauren Easton of the AP expressed profound disappointment in a statement, noting that the White House, instead of reinstating the AP's access, opted to impose restrictions across all wire services.

Easton, a spokeswoman for the Associated Press, said that wire services represent thousands of news organizations in the U.S. and around the world. She added that their coverage is used by local newspapers and television stations in all 50 states to inform their communities.

Easton said Tuesday night that the government's actions continue to ignore the basic American right to speak freely without the government controlling or punishing people.

The independent White House Correspondents' Association said the government wanting to control who reports on the president shows they won't promise to stop treating people differently based on their opinions.

Eugene Daniels, the association's president, said the government should not be allowed to control the independent media that reports on it.

Under Leavitt's leadership, the White House has afforded enhanced access to news organizations supportive of Trump. This was evident on Tuesday, when the initial reporter Leavitt called upon during a briefing posed two questions whilst simultaneously commending Trump's policy.

During a meeting in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump got angry when CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked him questions about a man sent back to a prison in El Salvador. At one point, he said CNN "hates our country." He then pointed out how her questions were different from an easier question asked by another reporter.

Despite some highly charged moments, Trump has engaged with the media more openly than former President Joe Biden. Intimate gatherings, especially in the Oval Office, are his preferred settings for interviews, making the new access policy significantly more effective.

The new rule that started on Tuesday didn't talk about how photographers could get in. Before this, in a court meeting about the AP's situation, their main White House photographer, Evan Vucci, and writer Zeke Miller explained how the ban has harmed their news company, which is made to quickly give news and pictures to people who use their service.

The problem started because the Associated Press decided not to follow the president's order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. However, the AP's style guide does mention that Trump wanted it to be called the Gulf of America. McFadden agreed with the Associated Press, saying the government cannot punish the news group for what it says, which is their right to free speech.

The White House has said that journalists being able to see the president is a special permission, not something they have a right to do. They believe they should control who gets this access, similar to how they choose who Trump talks to alone for interviews. In court papers given last weekend, his lawyers suggested that even after McFadden's decision, the Associated Press would no longer have easy access to public events with the president.

"No other news organization in the United States gets the same level of guaranteed access that the AP used to have," the administration said. "The AP might be used to being treated specially, but the Constitution doesn't say that this special treatment has to last forever."

The government has appealed McFadden's decision and will be in an appeals court on Thursday. They will argue that the decision should be stopped until the main points of the case are fully decided, maybe by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Over the past two months, the administration has maintained Associated Press access to Leavitt's briefings, but has prevented AP reporters accredited to the White House from attending events in the East Room, with a single exception on Tuesday when one was permitted to cover an event featuring the Navy football team.