Donald Trump has blocked journalists from the Oval Office for refusing to follow his executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

A reporter from the AP news agency, one of the largest US news providers, had tried to enter the White House on Tuesday but was turned away.

Mr Trump signed an executive order renaming the body of water – bordered by the US, Mexico and Cuba – during his first week in office.

The move has been controversial and has left big tech companies, many of which have grown more aligned with Mr Trump in recent months, in an awkward position.

Apple and Google Maps have made a compromise in which the name of the Gulf will be different according to where you live.

Both tech companies changed the name to the Gulf of America on its maps for US users after it was updated in the US Geographic Names System (USGS).

However, it remains the Gulf of Mexico in Europe and appears as Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) on Google.

Mexico had asked the major tech companies not to do so, claiming Mr Trump had no legal right to change the name.