The Associated Press on Friday sued senior aides to President Donald Trump over a decision by the White House to restrict the news outlet's access to the president and other officials for continuing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico in its coverage.

The AP sued Trump officials over the White House ban on the news org because of its refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America."

The Associated Press remains excluded from White House Events because "it just refuses to go with what the law is" around Gulf of Mexico name change.