US President wants to call Hormuz Trump Strait

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US President Donald Trump proposed on September 2 to rename the Strait of Hormuz "Trump Strait", Al Arabiya reported.

Trump wrote on his Truth Social page: "This area is under US control. Should the Strait of Hormuz be renamed Trump Strait??? Like America, this name will increase the importance and status of the area."

This is the latest initiative to change geographical names proposed by Trump. Last week, he ordered Lake Ontario to be renamed "Lake of the Americas" due to a trade war with Canada.

Trump also renamed the Gulf of Mexico "Gulf of the Americas" on his first day back in office in January 2025. However, neither Mexico nor Canada recognized the changes.

The 80-year-old US president initially made the name change proposals as a joke, but later began to implement them. In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly threatened to take possession of the Strait of Hormuz. He even presented a map showing the waterway as "new US territory."

But Iran has blocked this vital route. A fifth of the world's oil passes through it. Iran took this action in response to the war that Trump started with Israel in late February.

On the night of September 2, US forces launched another strike near the Strait of Hormuz. According to Trump, the strike was carried out because Iran was trying to lay new mines there. After that, oil prices began to rise again.

**New military action against Iran will not last long**

Trump said on September 2 that new military action against Iran will not last very long. He told reporters in the Oval Office that Iran was trying to build a missile that could launch mines and that the United States had destroyed it.

He also said that Iran was trying to restore radar and missile systems, and that the US strikes were also aimed at them.

"We destroyed all the new equipment that they were trying to build along the Strait of Hormuz. Some of it was defensive, some of it was offensive... There was a very strong attack last night. We are ready to do it again at any time if we want to," he said.