Following a recent court defeat concerning Associated Press access to the presidency, the White House on Tuesday unveiled a revised media policy that significantly restricts news agencies' access to Donald Trump, impacting media outlets globally. This represented the latest initiative by the new administration to manage the portrayal of its actions.

This action would stop the Associated Press and other news services that reach billions of readers through many news organizations. It follows a judge's decision that the White House had violated the organization's right to free speech by banning it because it disagreed with the outlet's choice about whether to rename the Gulf of Mexico.

According to sources familiar with the plan, the White House is implementing a new "pool coverage" system for confined areas such as the Oval Office and Air Force One, and will ultimately delegate to press secretary Karoline Leavitt the authority to determine which journalists may question the President.

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

Last week, a federal judge decided that the White House had unfairly punished the AP. They did this by stopping the AP's reporters and photographers from covering events because the AP would not change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden ordered the government to treat the AP the same way it treats other news groups.

The day after ignoring McFadden's decision and keeping the AP ban in place when Trump and El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele spoke to reporters in the Oval Office, the White House shared information about a new policy with certain journalists.

For many years, the White House Correspondents Association has managed the pool for restricted-space events, consistently incorporating reporters from the wire services AP, Reuters, and Bloomberg; additionally, a single print reporter, chosen on a rotational basis from over 30 news outlets, was granted access.

The White House has announced its intention to consolidate the three wire services alongside print journalists for two designated slots, effectively requiring approximately three dozen reporters to rotate access to these two regular positions. Wire services are typically responsible for reporting and drafting stories disseminated across numerous locations both domestically and internationally.

Even with the changes, the White House said Trump's press secretary will still decide which reporters are in the pool each day. The new rule also says reporters can be in the pool no matter what opinions their news organization expresses.

In a statement, the AP's Lauren Easton expressed profound disappointment that the White House, rather than reinstating the AP's access, opted for comprehensive restrictions impacting all wire services.

"Wire services act as aggregators and distributors for numerous news outlets throughout the United States and internationally," stated Easton, a spokeswoman for the Associated Press. "Their reporting is utilized by regional newspapers and television channels across all 50 states to keep their local populations informed."

Easton said Tuesday night that the administration's actions keep ignoring the basic American freedom to speak without the government controlling or punishing you.

The independent White House Correspondents' Association said the government's insistence on controlling who reports on the president shows they are not willing to promise they will stop treating people unfairly based on their opinions.

"The government should not possess the authority to regulate the independent media that reports on its activities," declared Eugene Daniels, the association's president.

During Leavitt's tenure, the White House has afforded increased access to news outlets sympathetic to Trump, evident on Tuesday when the first reporter Leavitt called upon at a briefing posed two questions whilst simultaneously commending Trump's policy.

During a meeting in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump took exception to inquiries from CNN's Kaitlan Collins regarding an individual deported to a Salvadoran prison, even suggesting that CNN harbored animosity towards the United States. He deliberately highlighted the difference between her probing questions and a less direct one posed by another journalist.

While there have been some notable clashes, Trump has generally been more available to the media than his predecessor, former President Joe Biden. He particularly favors informal gatherings in confined spaces, especially in the Oval Office, making the recently introduced access policy even more significant.

The new rule discussed on Tuesday didn't talk about photographers being able to get in. Before that, 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 work. Their news agency is built to quickly give news and pictures to people who use them.

The disagreement 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's point that the government cannot punish the news organization for what it says, because this is their right to free speech.

The White House says that the press being able to see the president is a special permission, not a basic right, and that they should decide who gets it, just like they choose who gets private interviews with the president. In court papers given in the last few days, his lawyers showed that even with the judge's decision, the press would no longer have easy access to public events with the president.

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

The administration has appealed McFadden's ruling and will be in an appeals court on Thursday. They will argue that the ruling 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 not restricted AP's access to Leavitt's briefings but has prevented White House-credentialed AP reporters from attending East Room events, with the exception of one reporter who was permitted entry to an event involving the Navy football team on Tuesday.