Donald Trump confronted recent mockery after doubling down on the thought of renaming the Strait of Hormuz after himself.
The strategic waterway carries roughly a fifth of the world’s oil provide and its blockade amid Trump’s struggle on Iran has seen oil costs spiking.
“Crude oil is now at $120/barrel and climbing. Americans are paying higher and higher prices,” the governor’s press workplace wrote on X, earlier than including: “Why won’t President Trump open the Strait of Trump!?”
Other critics slammed the thought, with some calling for the channel to renamed the “Strait of Epstein,” in reference to the late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, a onetime shut affiliate of the president.
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