US President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz “Trump Strait” and claimed that the waterway was under US control. Mr Trump has already ordered the US government to rename two international bodies of water, changing the official designations of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and Lake Ontario to Lake America. “Now that we have it under USA control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to Trump Strait?” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Like America itself, it would be ‘hotter’ than ever before.”The President only has the power to tell the federal government how to refer to place names. Other countries are free to ignore his new nomenclatures, though tech giants Google and Apple quickly fell in line and updated their maps for US users.It's got a nice ring to it pic.twitter.com/Fmzc9iUu8u— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 2, 2026Earlier this week, Mr Trump claimed the US had taken control of the Strait of Hormuz. On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the waterway could soon become “worthless” as Gulf states fast-track alternatives for sending energy supplies to global markets.The Trump administration has struggled to end the war in Iran and fully reopen the strait, where shipping levels remain a fraction of prewar norms.The strait, through which one-fifth of the global petroleum liquids used to be shipped, has been at...
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