Molly Jong-Fast on the breaking news that the AP is suing the Trump WH over "Gulf of America"

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🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	They asked Hamish why he didn't sell.
0:04.1	Oh,
0:04.4	anyway.
0:04.9	Oh, hang on.
0:05.2	We're live.
0:05.6	We're live right now.
0:06.3	Yeah, we'll hold.
0:08.4	We'll put a pin in that conversation.
0:09.6	Yes, we will.
0:10.5	I got Molly up and we're talking about the Associated Press taking the Trump administration to court over this Gulf of America business.
0:23.5	And Molly, I mean, this is, I think this is a big deal. The AP filing this lawsuit. We're all kind of wondering and waiting,
0:28.9	were they going to do this? And they're doing it. And I mean, they're making it very clear in this
0:33.3	lawsuit. They believe this is a violation of their First Amendment rights as a news
0:37.9	organization. So I think what is really important about moments like this when people are
0:44.3	brave is that it shows how cowardly a lot of other people are. For example, here's an organization
0:51.7	standing up for what's right, showing that they can't be penalized for
0:57.1	the sort of propaganda move, right?
0:59.4	Trump wants people, wants news organizations to call it the Gulf of America.
1:03.6	It's not the Gulf of America.
1:05.6	And by the way, it's meant to be a sort of propagandist, you know, Orwellian, yeah.
1:14.6	Orwellian sort of ploy to, you know, manifest destiny, right?
1:19.4	It's this idea that Trumpism is really a sort of nationalism.
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