{"id":70656,"date":"2026-09-02T16:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/70656"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:34:32","slug":"trump-floats-trump-strait-name-for-contested-hormuz-waterway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/70656","title":{"rendered":"Trump floats \u2018Trump Strait\u2019 name for contested Hormuz waterway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz as \u201cTrump Strait\u201d despite the fact that the crucial waterway remains contested amid the war with Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we have it under U.S.A. 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<p>It is the latest geographical name change floated by Trump and comes a week after he ordered Lake Ontario to be renamed as \u201cLake America\u201d amid a trade war with Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the \u201cGulf of America\u201d on his first day back in office in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Mexico nor Canada have accepted the changes.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the previous name changes started off as apparently jovial remarks by the 80-year-old US president before he then followed through to make them a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has in recent weeks repeatedly pressed a threat to claim sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, even posting a map showing the waterway as a \u201cnew US territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Iran has effectively shut down the chokepoint, 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<p>Oil prices are rising again after US forces launched fresh strikes near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday in response to what Trump said were new minelaying efforts by Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/trump-floats-trump-strait-name-for-contested-hormuz-waterway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz as \u201cTrump Strait\u201d despite the fact that the crucial waterway remains contested amid the war with Iran. \u201cNow that we have it under U.S.A. 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donald-Trump-lake-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":4281,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":4281,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70658,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70656\/revisions\/70658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}