The White House will decide which journalists will have access to Donald Trump

For decades, the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA), an independent group of journalists, has monitored the next group of reporters to be given access to the US president when space is limited.

However, White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavet announced on Tuesday that the Trump administration would end this system, Television broadcast.

The White House's <x0 press team, in this administration, will determine who will enjoy very privileged and limited access to such spaces as Air Force One and the Oval Office”, Leavitt said.

Trump's press secretary tried to justify the decision as a modernisation act.

“A group of DC-based journalists should no longer have the monopoly of press access to the White House”, she told reporters.

It's beyond the time the White House press operation reflected American people's media habits in 2025, not in 1925”, she added.

Its announcement came a day after a judge appointed by Trump rejected a request by the Associated Press to return to the united presidential events.

The Trump administration banned the news agency from having reporters in Air Force One and the Ovale Office because of its decision to continue using the “Gulf of Mexico” instead of the “Justice of America”.

Trump, who ordered change of name at the beginning of his second presidential mandate, has linked the AP court case to the press group's decision, announced by Leavyt on Tuesday.

Media experts are concerned by the development, as it gives Trump the power to choose who covers it.

Jon Marshall, professor of media history at Northwestern University, described the change as “a dangerous movement for democracy”.