{"id":562301,"date":"2026-04-03T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/562301\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:14:13","slug":"us-can-take-strait-of-hormuz-with-more-time-says-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/562301\/","title":{"rendered":"US can take Strait of Hormuz \u2018with more time\u2019, says Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">President Donald \u2060Trump on Friday said the \u2060US can open the Strait of Hormuz with a little more time, as pressure mounts for his administration to find a \u200cquick resolution to a war against Iran.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWith a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL,&amp; MAKE A FORTUNE,\u201d he said in a post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Nearly \u2060five weeks after it started with a joint US-Israeli aerial \u200cassault, the war in Iran continues to spread chaos across the region and roil \u200cfinancial markets, raising the pressure on Trump to \u2060find a \u2060quick resolution to the conflict.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Iran has effectively shut down the \u200cStrait of Hormuz, a key waterway that carries about a fifth of \u200cthe \u200cworld\u2019s total oil consumption, in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes \u200cthat began in late February.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-1w1l3op e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775100790_913_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">WATCH: Donald Trump addresses nation<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: Donald Trump addresses nation<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Reopening it has become \u2060a priority for governments around the world as energy \u2060prices soar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald \u2060Trump on Friday said the \u2060US can open the Strait of Hormuz with a little more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[6361,23,45616,236558,801,803,133,3,3310,61387,61790,30846,3479,130,21,19,22,20,25,24,1139],"class_list":{"0":"post-562301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-abu-dhabi","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-gulf","11":"tag-hormuz","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-kuwait","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-oil","17":"tag-starmer","18":"tag-strait","19":"tag-strikes","20":"tag-trump","21":"tag-uae","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}