Trump’s ‘Trump Strait’ Plan: A Geopolitical Vanity Project or Just a Joke?

U.S. President Donald Trump floats renaming the Strait of Hormuz after himself.

Aryan Kumar 7 Sep 2026 ·13:47 · 4 hours ago

3 min read STRAIT OF HORMUZ

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Donald Trump suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz ‘Trump Strait’ on Truth Social, claiming U.S. control over the waterway.
The White House posted a map labelling the strait as ‘Trump Strait,’ but Trump later dismissed the idea as a casual remark.
The Strait of Hormuz handles one-fifth of the world’s oil, with pre-war traffic at 20 million barrels per day.
Iran has effectively shut down the strait in retaliation for U.S. strikes, reducing commercial traffic to wartime lows.

El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump propuso cambiar el nombre del estrecho de Ormuz a “Estrecho Trump”, reivindicando así el control estadounidense sobre esta vía marítima crucial en medio de la escalada de tensiones con Irán. La sugerencia, publicada en Truth Social, incluía una pregunta retórica sobre si el estrecho debería ser renombrado. Trump describió este hipotético cambio como algo que haría que la zona fuera “más conflictiva que nunca”. La Casa Blanca compartió posteriormente un mapa de la región del Golfo que identificaba el estrecho como “Estrecho Trump”, añadiendo que…

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