The Trump administration and the AP have been at odds over the wire service's refusal to comply with the president's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The AP Stylebook is the standard used in newsrooms across the country and most of the world. Google Maps and Apple Maps have switched to the term Gulf of America.

Amid all of the fights the new president has picked so far, his feud with The Associated Press is the spiciest: one part petty, one part subversive and one part pure power politics.