“Iran has to open up the Strait of Trump — I mean, Hormuz,” the president said at the Future Investment Initiative in Florida.
He cheekily apologised before targeting the mainstream media present at the venue. “I am so sorry. Such a terrible mistake. The fake news will say, ‘He accidentally said’ — No, there are no accidents with me, not too many. If there were, we’d have a major story.”
The Strait of Hormuz has remained shut since March 3, when Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps closed the critical waterway to shipping traffic, threatening to attack any vessel attempting to pass through it.
The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway in the Persian Gulf, carries about a fifth of the world’s oil and gas. Tankers travelling through the strait carry oil and gas from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE and Iran.
The announcement marked one of the most significant geopolitical escalations in the ongoing conflict between Iran on one side and Israel and the US on the other.
RENAMING OF GULF OF MEXICO
While Trump’s antics garnered laughs from the audience, the US President is no stranger to changing names of geographical landmarks.
In fact, he went on to explain why he renamed Gulf of Mexico to the ‘Gulf of America’ after he returned for a second term in January 2025.
“I always wondered why it was called the ‘Gulf of Mexico’. We have 92 per cent of it. Mexico has less than eight per cent. Mexico wasn’t thrilled, but I announced that the area will henceforth be called the ‘Gulf of America’,” he told the audience.
In February 2025, Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Following an executive order for the name change, Google Maps and Apple began displaying ‘Gulf of America’ alongside the Gulf of Mexico.
Analysts argued that the area was renamed as part of Trump’s agenda to reassert America’s dominance in the region.
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