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<\/p>\nWASHINGTON, Sept 3 \u2014 US President Donald Trump yesterday suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz as \u201cTrump Strait\u201d despite ongoing clashes with Iran \u2014 then hours later implied he wasn\u2019t serious.<\/p>\n
Trump has made a series of geographical name changes to international bodies of water in his second term, at least partly with the aim of trolling other countries.<\/p>\n
The latest suggestion came as Trump insisted the US had full control of the crucial waterway, even as fresh clashes raged there with Iran.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow that we have it under USA. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be \u2018hotter\u2019 than ever before!\u201d Trump said on his Truth Social network.<\/p>\n
The White House later posted a map of the Gulf on social media with his suggested name, adding: \u201cIt\u2019s got a nice ring to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump has in recent weeks repeatedly threatened to claim sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, even posting a map showing the waterway as a \u201cnew US territory.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump, however, later played down the idea of rebranding the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just thrown out there,\u201d Trump said with a chuckle after an AFP reporter asked him in the Oval Office if he was serious about renaming it.<\/p>\n
But a number of the 80-year-old Republican\u2019s previous suggestions have been dismissed as being humorous before they ended up happening for real.<\/p>\n
Last week Trump signed an order renaming Lake Ontario as \u201cLake America\u201d amid a trade war with neighbouring Canada, just days after apparently raising the idea in jest.<\/p>\n
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Vessels are seen in the Strait of Hormuz, off the port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran on August 10, 2026. \u2014 AFP pic<\/p>\n
Iran war grinds on\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump also renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the \u201cGulf of America\u201d on his first day back in the White House in January 2025. Neither Mexico nor Canada have accepted the changes.<\/p>\n
He has also gone on a spree of renaming things after himself, including the Kennedy arts center in Washington, while the US Treasury meanwhile yesterday issued US$1 (RM4.04) coins featuring Trump\u2019s face to mark the 250th anniversary of US independence.<\/p>\n
The Iran war remains a deadly serious issue, with no sign of ending more than six months after the initial US-Israeli assault.<\/p>\n
Fighting has flared again after weeks of calm, with US forces launching fresh strikes near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday in response to what Trump said were new minelaying efforts by Iran.<\/p>\n
Iran said one of the US strikes killed four people at a wedding, branding it a \u201cwar crime\u201d, and launched a wave of retaliatory strikes at US bases in Jordan, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Iraq.<\/p>\n
At home, Trump has presided over a steep rise in US fuel costs as a result of the war and his Republican Party looks likely to lose at least partial control of Congress in the November midterm elections.<\/p>\n
Iran has effectively shut down the choke point, through which a fifth of the world\u2019s oil passes, in retaliation for the war Trump started along with Israel in late February.<\/p>\n
Trump said yesterday that the United States was ready to attack Iran again \u2014 while adding that the renewed campaign would not last \u201ctoo long.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very heavy attack last night, and we\u2019re prepared to do another one any time we want,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, Sept 3 \u2014 US President Donald Trump yesterday suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz as \u201cTrump Strait\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[38,102,196,101,1526,51,1705],"class_list":["post-276128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-donald-trump","tag-hormuz","tag-iran-war","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-truth-social","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117205374368507045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276128","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=276128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}