White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the decision to block the Associated Press from access to an Oval Office event, saying that they were trying to hold the news organization “accountable” for not renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from an event in the Oval Office on Tuesday after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has ordered renamed the Gulf of America.

A reporter from the Associated Press was denied entry into the Ival Office Tuesday after the wire service did not