{"id":77733,"date":"2026-08-21T21:42:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/trump-says-he-views-strait-of-hormuz-as-american-territory\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T21:42:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:42:43","slug":"trump-says-he-views-strait-of-hormuz-as-american-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/trump-says-he-views-strait-of-hormuz-as-american-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he views strait of Hormuz as \u2018American territory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President at rally in South Carolina makes comments on key strategic waterway and jokes about bombing Iran<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump called the strait of Hormuz \u201can American territory\u201d on Friday, as the US continues its military blockade of Iran\u2019s shipping and ports while Trump\u2019s administration struggles to end its war with the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t even know if we won, because I view the strait of Hormuz as an American territory right now,\u201d Trump said, addressing a crowd in South Carolina. He was campaigning for senator Darline Graham, who is running to permanently fill her late brother Lindsey Graham\u2019s Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/21\/trump-strait-of-hormuz-american-territory\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President at rally in South Carolina makes comments on key strategic waterway and jokes about bombing Iran Donald Trump called the strait of Hormuz \u201can American territory\u201d on Friday, as the US continues its military blockade of Iran\u2019s shipping and ports while Trump\u2019s administration struggles to end its war with the country. \u201cWe don\u2019t even &#8230; <a title=\"Trump says he views strait of Hormuz as \u2018American territory\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/trump-says-he-views-strait-of-hormuz-as-american-territory\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump says he views strait of Hormuz as \u2018American territory\u2019\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77733","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=77733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}