The White House has put forward a new media policy that sharply curtails access to Donald Trump by the news agencies that serve media outlets around the world.

The White House is making changes to which outlets are included in the press pool covering President Trump, and doing away with the spot normally reserved for wire services covering his daily activities.

Despite a court order, a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press were barred from an Oval Office news conference on Monday with President Donald Trump and his counterpart from El Salvador,

We expect the White House to restore AP’s participation in the pool as of today, as provided in the injunction order,” AP spokesperson Lauren Easton said.

U.S. President Donald Trump is open to making a trade deal with China but Beijing should make the first move, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday. "The ball is in China's court: China needs to make a deal with us,

President Trump is open to a deal with Beijing on tariffs, but “the ball is in China’s court” amid the global superpowers’ trade battle, the White House shared Tuesday. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt,

Donald Trump believes it is up to China, not the United States, to come to the negotiating table on trade, the White House said Tuesday, after the US president accused Beijing of reneging on a major Boeing deal.

The former US president says his successor has "done so much damage and so much destruction" in his first days in office.