{"id":17057,"date":"2025-03-31T18:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17057"},"modified":"2025-03-31T18:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:38:25","slug":"he-took-the-iconic-trump-fist-pump-photo-now-hes-fighting-trump-to-be-allowed-back-in-the-oval-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17057","title":{"rendered":"He took the iconic Trump fist-pump photo. Now he\u2019s fighting Trump to be allowed back in the Oval Office."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When a would-be assassin\u2019s bullet struck Donald Trump\u2019s ear, Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci \u2014 dodging bullets himself \u2014 captured the iconic image of a bloodied Trump, rising to his feet and pumping his fist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for the past six weeks, Vucci has been barred from covering many other historic moments in the Trump White House, thanks to the president\u2019s decision to punish the AP for its refusal to embrace his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the \u201cGulf of America.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/27\/associated-press-court-hearing-trump-00253952\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/27\/associated-press-court-hearing-trump-00253952<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When a would-be assassin\u2019s bullet struck Donald Trump\u2019s ear, Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci \u2014 dodging bullets himself \u2014 captured the iconic image of a bloodied Trump, rising to his feet and pumping his fist.<\/p>\n<p>But for the past six weeks, Vucci has been barred from covering many other historic moments in the Trump White House, thanks to the president\u2019s decision to punish the AP for its refusal to embrace his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the \u201cGulf of America.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/27\/associated-press-court-hearing-trump-00253952<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,971,2006,295,513,136,138,170],"class_list":["post-17057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-free-press","tag-freedom-of-press","tag-journalism","tag-journalists","tag-media","tag-press","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17058,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057\/revisions\/17058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}