The White House has created a new system for reporters to cover the President in small places, like the Oval Office and Air Force One. In this system, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, will decide which reporters can ask the President questions, according to people who know about the plan.

The White House did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday evening.

Last week, a judge decided the White House unfairly treated the Associated Press (AP). This happened because the AP did not agree to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. The White House stopped AP reporters and photographers from attending events. Judge Trevor N. McFadden ordered the government to treat the AP like other news groups.

The day after ignoring the court's order and keeping the ban on AP, the White House shared a new rule with some reporters. This happened when Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele were talking to journalists.

For many years, the White House Correspondents Association has decided which reporters can go to events with limited space. They always include reporters from news agencies like AP, Reuters, and Bloomberg. Also, one reporter from a newspaper was chosen, and this spot rotated among reporters from over 30 other news groups.

The White House will now put the three news agencies together with print reporters for two spots. This means about 36 reporters will take turns using these two regular spots. News agencies usually write stories that are used in many places around the world.

Despite the changes, the White House said Trump's press secretary will still choose which reporters can attend the daily meetings. The new rule also states that news groups can attend no matter what opinions they express.

Lauren Easton from the AP said they were very disappointed because the White House did not give them back access. Instead, the White House limited all news agencies.

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Easton said Tuesday night that the government is still not respecting the basic American right to speak freely without the government getting involved or punishing people.

The independent White House Correspondents' Association said the government wanting to choose who reports on the president shows they cannot promise they will not treat people unfairly because of their views.

Eugene Daniels, the president of the association, said the government should not control the independent media that reports on it.

With Leavitt leading, the White House has given more access to news groups that like Trump. This was easy to see on Tuesday when the first reporter Leavitt talked to in a press meeting asked two questions and also said good things about Trump's plans.

At a meeting on Monday, Trump got angry when a CNN reporter asked him questions about a man who was sent back to prison in El Salvador. He even said that CNN "hated our country." He pointed out that her questions were different from the less direct question asked by another reporter.

Even though there were sometimes disagreements, Trump allowed the media to speak with him more often than the president before him, former President Joe Biden. He especially liked talking to the media in small spaces, like the Oval Office. This made his new approach to letting the media speak with him even more important.

The new rule, which was announced on Tuesday, didn't say if photographers could go in. Before that, in a court meeting about the AP's problem, their main photographer at the White House, Evan Vucci, and writer Zeke Miller talked about how the ban has hurt the news agency. This agency is made to send news and photos quickly to people.

The issue began when AP chose not to obey the president's command to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. But AP does note that Trump prefers it to be named the Gulf of America. McFadden supported AP's view that the government cannot punish the news group for its words, as this is their freedom of speech.

The White House thinks it should choose which reporters can go to presidential events. They say it's a special chance, not something everyone has a right to, like how they pick who gets private talks with the president. In court papers, his lawyers suggested that even after the judge's decision, news groups like the AP would not have simple access to public presidential events anymore.

No other news company in the US gets the same guaranteed access that the AP used to have, the government said. The AP might be used to being the favorite, but the Constitution doesn't say it has to stay that way forever.

The government has disagreed with McFadden's decision and will be in court on Thursday to ask for the ruling to be stopped for now until the case is completely finished, maybe by the highest court in the USA.

For the last two months, the government has not stopped AP reporters from going to Leavitt's meetings. However, they have prevented AP reporters with White House passes from attending events in the East Room. This changed on Tuesday when one reporter was allowed to attend an event with the Navy football team.