{"id":521866,"date":"2026-08-17T16:43:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/?p=521866"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:43:51","slug":"trump-says-he-likes-the-idea-of-declaring-the-strait-of-hormuz-u-s-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/trump-says-he-likes-the-idea-of-declaring-the-strait-of-hormuz-u-s-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he likes the idea of declaring the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. President <strong>Donald Trump said he supports the idea of declaring the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory<\/strong>, arguing that the United States currently has \u201ctotal control\u201d of the strategic waterway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cWe have a blockade, we control it through the blockade, and I like the idea of declaring it territory; we can do that,\u201d<\/strong> Trump said during a public appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump also described the U.S. blockade as <strong>\u201cvery effective\u201d<\/strong> and said that millions of barrels of oil are being extracted each week. He acknowledged that Iran could potentially disrupt shipping by placing mines in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran has <strong>rejected Trump\u2019s proposal<\/strong>, with Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Gharibabadi stating that the Strait of Hormuz cannot be taken over \u201cwith a tweet, an aircraft carrier or a decree\u201d and insisting that it remains under Iranian control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump said he supports the idea of declaring the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory, arguing that the United States currently has \u201ctotal control\u201d of the strategic waterway. \u201cWe have a blockade, we control it through the blockade, and I like the idea of declaring it territory; we can do that,\u201d Trump said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":521867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bLc","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/IMG_4615.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/IMG_4615.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}