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Thu · 08 Oct 2026

Trump Floats Renaming Hormuz Strait "Trump Strait" on Social Media

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Trump Floats Renaming Hormuz Strait "Trump Strait" on Social Media

🛢️ HORMUZ — "Under US control" is doing a lot of work in that post. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Trump claiming Hormuz is "under US control" is the first presidential assertion of strategic ownership — not escort corridors, not safe passage, but control. The naming stunt is noise; the claim is signal. It locks Washington into defending that status publicly, raises the stakes of any Iranian re-mining, and hands Tehran a propaganda gift as strikes continue.

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