The Associated Press and the White House are having an argument over whether the "journalists" can deadname the Gulf of America.
Because the AP refuses to use the official name of the Gulf, the White House has revoked the organization's pass to enter the Oval Office and board Air Force One. It still has a seat at the White House briefing room but no special access as it has had in the past.
Many people think the White House is being petty, but they have a point--the Associated Press is having a temper tantrum and actively spreading what amounts to misinformation from the White House's point of view, and frankly the AP deserves to get its snout slapped with a newspaper for all the crap they pull.
The AP, as you might imagine, is big mad. So they are using the one tool they have to get back at Trump: they are spinning stories even harder.
Why are you lying Tara? Even the most basic fact check would tell you DOGE doesn’t have a Facebook page. You’re harming reputations with your story.
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 17, 2025
The latest example crosses the line from spin to complete bulls**t. In a story trying to pin the blame for a Canadian aircraft accident, reporter Tara Copp throws everything, including the kitchen sink, at Trump. Because she is a Pentagon reporter, she latches onto the strangest things, like FAA technicians working at an early warning radar site in Hawaii, as proof that Trump wants us all dead by falling out of the sky.
Other FAA employees who were fired were working on an urgent and classified early warning radar system the Air Force had announced in 2023 for Hawaii to detect incoming cruise missiles, through a program that was in part funded by the Department of Defense. It’s one of several programs that the FAA’s National Defense Program manages that involve radars providing longer-range detection around the country’s borders.
The article reads as if she sat down at her keyboard and vomited her rage out into the internet, and is as accurate as you might imagine.
More fake news from the @AP
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 17, 2025
1. DOGE doesn’t even have a Facebook page
2. No air traffic controllers nor any professionals who perform safety critical functions were terminated https://t.co/vhrusRu3NS
Kopp gives us a particularly troublesome example of an employee who was fired because he was a critic of Tesla, and provided the proof:
Spitzer-Stadtlander suggested he was targeted for firing for his views on Tesla and X, formerly Twitter, not as part of a general probationary-level sweep. Both companies are owned by Elon Musk, who is leading Trump’s effort to cut the federal government.
Spitzer-Stadtlander is Jewish and was angered by Elon Musk’s straight arm saluting at Trump’s inauguration. On his personal Facebook account he urged friends to get rid of their Teslas and “X,” or Twitter, accounts in response.
That post drew the attention of a DOGE Facebook account, which reacted with a laughing emoji. Soon after, he saw the same account reacting to much older posts through his personal Facebook feed.
“The official DOGE Facebook page started harassing me on my personal Facebook account after I criticized Tesla and Twitter,” Spitzer-Stadtlander wrote in a post over the weekend on Linked In. “Less than a week later, I was fired, despite my position allegedly being exempted due to national security.”
He added: “When DOGE fired me, they turned off my computer and wiped all of my files without warning.”
Spitzer-Stadtlander said he was supposed to be exempted from the probationary firings because the FAA office he worked in focused on national security threats such as attacks on the national airspace by drones.
The only problem? There is no official DOGE page on Facebook. Somebody has set up a Facebook page NAMED DOGE--presumably a fan--but the fine folks at DOGE are a bit too busy to monitor random FAA employees in Hawaii.
The Associated Press claims to be the gold standard of journalism, but their reporters are about what you would expect: entitled midwits who are emotionally incontinent and who weaponize their hatred for their own ends.
Mayor Pete failed for four years to address the air traffic controller shortage and upgrade our outdated, World War II-era air traffic control system. In less than four weeks, we have already begun the process and are engaging the smartest minds in the entire world.
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) February 18, 2025
Here’s the… https://t.co/LCL1dswC2T
Sean Duffy gives the receipts:
Mayor Pete failed for four years to address the air traffic controller shortage and upgrade our outdated, World War II-era air traffic control system. In less than four weeks, we have already begun the process and are engaging the smartest minds in the entire world.
Here’s the truth: the FAA alone has a staggering 45,000 employees. Less than 400 were let go, and they were all probationary, meaning they had been hired less than a year ago. Zero air traffic controllers and critical safety personnel were let go.
Mayor Pete chose to use this amazing department—that is so critical to America’s success—as a slush fund for the green new scam and environmental justice nonsense. Not to mention that over 90% of the workforce under his leadership were working from home - including him. The building was empty!
When we finally get a full accounting of his mismanagement, I look forward to hearing from him.
In the meantime, I will not rest until I return the Department of Transportation and its incredible employees to its mission of efficiency and safety.
In other words, the AP story is BS from start to finish.
Donald Trump has magical powers. One of the most powerful of them is forcing our elite institutions to unmask themselves as totally fake.
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