{"id":69286,"date":"2026-03-18T06:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/trump-says-us-no-longer-needs-allies-to-clear-strait-of-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T06:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:55:57","slug":"trump-says-us-no-longer-needs-allies-to-clear-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/trump-says-us-no-longer-needs-allies-to-clear-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says US No Longer Needs Allies to Clear Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is now saying the United States is prepared to clear the critical Strait of Hormuz without the help from European allies. Meanwhile, the director of National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, became the first senior Trump official to quit in opposition to the conflict with Iran, saying, &#8220;Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.&#8221; NBC\u2019s Peter Alexander reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is now saying the United States is prepared to clear the critical Strait of Hormuz without the help from European allies. Meanwhile, the director of National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, became the first senior Trump official to quit in opposition to the conflict with Iran, saying, &#8220;Iran posed no imminent threat to &#8230; <a title=\"Trump Says US No Longer Needs Allies to Clear Strait of Hormuz\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/trump-says-us-no-longer-needs-allies-to-clear-strait-of-hormuz\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump Says US No Longer Needs Allies to Clear Strait of Hormuz\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}