Look what happened.

Is this crazy?

We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in the history.

Make America great victory.

How can you be against them?

Welcome to Sidebar from the Washington Post.

I'm Rhonda Colvin, alongside Washington Post columnist, an editorial writer James Holman, and J.M. Rieger, our senior video journalists. Thank you guys for being here. We also have with us our media reporter, Jeremy Barr. Today we're going to dive into two topics. We'll start with how the second Trump administration has a new,

maybe surprising, maybe not so surprising relationship with the media and press access and what

the Gulf of America has to do with it. And second, we're going to talk about confirmations.

They are rolling along in the Senate. We'll talk about how some of the more controversial picks have

seemingly gone through with no real big upsets so far and what that means. But first, we're going to

dive into this discussion about Trump and the media. So we want to bring in our colleague,

Jeremy Barr, who covers the media for the Washington Post. Let's start this off with a tape if we can.

I was very upfront in my briefing on day one, that if we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room,

we are going to hold those lies accountable.

And it is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America.

And I'm not sure why news outlets don't want to call it that, but that is what it is.

Okay, so that's one of the moments that has been making some news.

So far since being in office, we've seen from the Trump administration that they have barred the Associated Press

from the Oval Office over the Gulf of Mexico versus Gulf of America, style guidance.

We've also seen the Pentagon remove media such as CNN, New York Times, as well as the Washington

Post from workspaces within the Pentagon and replace them with conservative media.

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