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US president proposes renaming Strait of Hormuz as Trump Strait
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US president proposes renaming Strait of Hormuz as Trump Strait

From Delfi Latvia · () Latvian

Translated from Latvian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Donald Trump proposed renaming the Strait of Hormuz as Trump Strait, according to the report.
  • The proposal follows his earlier moves to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and part of Lake Ontario as the American Lake, neither accepted by Mexico or Canada.
  • Iran has blocked the strait, a major dispute point in the conflict with the United States; before the conflict, about one-fifth of traded oil and natural gas passed through it in peacetime.

Donald Trump has proposed renaming the Strait of Hormuz as Trump Strait, adding another geographic name change to his recent moves involving contested waters.

About a week earlier, Trump ordered Lake Ontario, which lies on the US-Canada border, to be renamed the American Lake. He made that move as trade tensions between the United States and Canada intensified. In January 2025, he similarly renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Neither Mexico nor Canada has accepted those changes.

Trump has also threatened repeatedly in recent weeks to bring the Strait of Hormuz fully under US control. He published a map portraying the waterway as “new US territory.” Iran has effectively blocked the strait, which has become a central dispute in the war between the United States and Iran.

Before the conflict, roughly one-fifth of all traded oil and natural gas moved through the Strait of Hormuz during peacetime.

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Originally published by Delfi Latvia in Latvian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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