{"id":275818,"date":"2026-09-03T00:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/275818\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T00:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T00:08:14","slug":"trump-suggests-renaming-another-body-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/275818\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Suggests Renaming Another Body of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        President Trump is talking about renaming another body of water. On Wednesday he mused on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117202132375758936\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Truth Social <\/a>about rechristening the Strait of Hormuz as &#8220;TRUMP STRAIT,&#8221; claiming the US now effectively controls the passage and suggesting the new name would make the strait &#8220;hotter&#8221; than ever, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/6066413-trump-claims-hormuz-control\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hill<\/a> reports. Last month, he also said he planned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/394873\/trump-doesnt-ease-off-his-strait-of-hormuz-idea.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">declare the waterway a US territory<\/a>, without explaining how.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        The strait, bordered by Iran and Oman, carries about a fifth of global oil and gas shipments. The US naval blockade amid the six-month-old war with Iran has disrupted traffic and driven up energy prices. Trump this week touted America&#8217;s &#8220;almost total control&#8221; of the route and Iran&#8217;s &#8220;totally collapsing&#8221; economy, and wondered when Iranians would &#8220;rise up and fight.&#8221; Despite Trump&#8217;s claim of control over the strait, traffic remains well below prewar levels, and transits dropped further this week amid renewed military strikes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/02\/trump-hormuz-strait-ontario-iran.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNBC<\/a> reports.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; President Trump is talking about renaming another body of water. On Wednesday he mused on Truth Social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[102,34,196,361,181,722,101,69,1526],"class_list":["post-275818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-iranian","tag-oman","tag-president-trump","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-truth-social"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117204202862206868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}