The Associated Press responded Wednesday to the exclusion of two of its reporters from White House press events the day before, sending a letter to register its objections to the Trump administration’s actions.

Addressed to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, AP Executive Editor Julie Pace objected “in the strongest possible terms” to the White House blocking the news organization’s reporters from two separate events with President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

According to the AP, the decision to bar the journalists’ entry stems from “an apparent complaint over AP’s editorial decisions regarding the Gulf of Mexico, which President Trump recently renamed the Gulf of America.”

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