{"id":1017110,"date":"2026-08-22T13:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1017110\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T13:40:18","slug":"trump-says-iran-could-be-bombed-a-little-bit-more-as-us-shifts-to-economic-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1017110\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran could be bombed \u2018a little bit more\u2019 as US shifts to economic crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

51 mins agoTrump again calls Strait of Hormuz an \u2018American territory,\u2019 says Iran wants deal \u2018so badly\u2019<\/p>\n

During a campaign stop for Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., on Friday, President Donald Trump<\/a> again stated that he views the Strait of Hormuz as an “American territory.”<\/p>\n

During his speech, Trump recalled that before he decided to wage war against Iran<\/a> in late February, he had traveled to Iowa earlier in the year and remarked to his White House advisors about low gas prices there at the time.<\/p>\n

“I left, I went, and I said, ‘you know, I hate to do this to you’ because the country was booming,” Trump said. “I said, ‘I hate to do this, but we’re going to have to take a little detour down to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and we’re going to have to put out the nuclear weapons stuff, because they’re going to have a nuclear weapon, and we cannot let them have a nuclear weapon.’ We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.”<\/p>\n

“So we went down and we stopped them. They’ll never have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. “They want to make a deal so badly, we don’t even know if we want.”<\/p>\n

“Because I view the Strait of Hormuz as an American territory right now. It’s an American territory,” he added.<\/p>\n

Trump said that once the U.S. operation<\/a> against Iran is complete, “oil is going to be down at lower than it was even just a little while ago.” He also argued that the stock market has since recovered compared to the onset of the war.<\/p>\n

Later in the speech, the president quipped about potentially bombing Iran again while asking the crowd if they wanted him to read \u201cThe Snake,\u201d a 1968 song by Al Wilson that Trump has repeatedly cited since his 2016 campaign while discussing illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

“Look, it’s a Friday night. We have plenty of time, right? What the hell do I have to do? Go back, bomb Iran a little bit more. What now?” Trump said.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has largely pivoted to a strategy of sanctions and an overall economic crackdown on Iran, rather than continuing a traditional military response. The U.S. Naval blockade of Iran’s ports remains in effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"51 mins agoTrump again calls Strait of Hormuz an \u2018American territory,\u2019 says Iran wants deal \u2018so badly\u2019 During…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1017111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[104,106,105,108,50,67,132,68,107],"class_list":["post-1017110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-breaking-news","tag-current-news","tag-latest-news","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117139447952828968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}