President Donald Trump’s exclusion of the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One for using “Gulf of Mexico” rather than switching to “Gulf of America” is petty, dictatorial, and wrong.
In other regards, however, the absurd spat over the gulf supports Oscar Wilde’s observation that the truth is never pure and rarely simple.
The Associated Press says it uses “Gulf of Mexico” because that’s been the name for 400 years and its continued use avoids confusion. But the organization long ago polluted its news writing with leftist assumptions, and it is difficult to believe it is not being recalcitrant as an act of political resistance.
The federal Board on Geographic Names has changed the gulf’s name. In the Associated Press’s home country,
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