WASHINGTON — The Trump administration stripped wire reporters of guaranteed daily access to the president Tuesday following the Associated Press’ victory in a lawsuit over its exclusion from the press pool, The Post has learned.

From now on, the White House will set aside a second slot for “print” outlets — now including wire journalists — in the rotating group of reporters who get access to President Trump in small event spaces.

DC US District Judge Trevor McFadden last Tuesday ordered the AP’s restoration to the press pool after weeks of exclusion over the wire’s refusal to update its Stylebook to refer to the “Gulf of America” following Trump’s official renaming of the former Gulf of Mexico on Jan. 20.

McFadden’s ruling contained a glaring loophole that said the AP “cannot be treated worse than its peer wire services” — which the administration took to greenlight the end of longstanding special wire access.

It’s the latest major change to the press pool — the composition of which influences the topics raised with the world’s most powerful man, who answered more than 1,000 queries in mostly pool-only settings in his first month back in the White House.

“The makeup of the pool is far more reflective of the media habits of the American people in 2025,” a senior White House official told The Post. “The White House press policy continues to be grounded in fairness for all outlets that wish to cover the White House.”

For decades, the wires AP, Reuters and Bloomberg were each granted access to all presidential events in smaller venues such as the Oval Office — while journalists for major newspapers, magazines and websites comprising the “print” pool rotation were allowed entry roughly once a month.

The reassignment of the three wires would expand the White House print rotation to 34 spots from the current 31.

The addition of a second print pooler could nearly double the number of events into which most major print news outlets are admitted — should the White House pull only from the existing outlets in the rotation — while dramatically decreasing opportunities for each wire service.

The fight between the AP and the White House over Trump’s rechristening of the Gulf has upended longstanding media policies around the executive mansion.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Feb. 25 that the White House would assume direct control of the composition of the pool as the AP impasse dragged on — ending generations of control by the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA).

The WHCA still has other powers given through deference by past administrations, including control over the 49 assigned briefing room seats.

“As we’ve said before, the government should not be able to control the independent media that covers it,” association president Eugene Daniels of MSNBC said in a Tuesday night statement.

“The changes to the press pool today show that the White House is just using a new means to do the same thing: retaliate against news organizations for coverage the White House doesn’t like. The WHCA is working to find out what this means in practice but what we do know is that restrictions on White House media coverage only hurt the American people who rely on unfiltered journalism to stay informed and make decisions critical to their lives.”

Daniels added: “The White House’s insistence they would also ‘retain day-to-day discretion’ of the pool’s composition rather than utilize regular rotations with clear criteria also underscores that the administration remains unwilling to provide guarantees they will not continue to engage in the viewpoint discrimination that was ruled unlawful by a federal court.”

Since the White House asserted control in late February a single wire reporter had been permitted into the pool each day, with Reuters and Bloomberg switching off. Each wire previously was admitted to all presidential events.

The White House press office has presented itself as more transparent and inclusive with its reforms — despite criticism from press-freedom and pro-free speech groups over its action against the Associated Press.

The administration has established a 50th seat in the White House briefing room for “new media” — which has so far been filled by mainstream news websites, conservative journalists and social media personalities with large followings.

Additionally, a separate “new media” spot has been added to the daily pool along with a secondary TV rotation that includes both mainstream and conservative-leaning channels and supplements the historical “five families” rota of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC.

The White House has continued to include a radio reporter and four photographers in each day’s pool.

Leavitt at her first press briefing announced plans to restore about 400 “hard passes” for journalists that were revoked by the Biden administration as part of an effort to drive out journalist Simon Ateba of Today News Africa, who frequently disrupted briefings by President Biden’s spokespeople.

Ateba himself has not regained his press badge and has since late last year been unable to access the White House grounds due to what a Secret Service official says is a “requirements matter” that was not a “staff policy decision of the current or former administration.”

The issue of press access has been a running battle through both Republican and Democratic administrations.

In 2013, the Obama White House faced a photographer revolt after barring independent cameramen and instead handing out flattering photos of the commander in chief at events.

The Biden White House, meanwhile, devised a novel prescreening process for journalists allowed into large event spaces that historically were open to all journalists on campus — at one point barring The Post, America’s oldest continuously operating daily newspaper, from events for seven months.