{"id":330169,"date":"2026-08-19T07:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=330169"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T08:00:09","slug":"trump-posts-image-depicting-strait-of-hormuz-as-us-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=330169","title":{"rendered":"Trump posts image depicting Strait of Hormuz as US territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Nava Frieberg \u2013 Times of Israel Aug 18, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>United States President Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account showing the Strait of Hormuz as a new US territory.<\/p>\n<p>The post, bearing no caption, comes days after the US leader vowed he would \u201csoon\u201d declare the vital waterway a US territory, as Washington and Tehran struggle to reach a deal to end their nearly six-month conflict.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear how serious Trump is about the move, as he has repeatedly issued sweeping threats against Tehran during the negotiation period that were not ultimately carried out.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New media post from Donald J. Trump<\/p>\n<p>( TS: Aug 18 2026, 7:09 AM ET )\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200d\u200c\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200c\u200d\u200c\u200c\u200b\u200d\u200d\u200b\u200b\u200c\u200b\u200c\u200d\u200d\u200d\u200d\u200c\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200d\u200c\u200c\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200c\u200d\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MXZtcwYrhB\">pic.twitter.com\/MXZtcwYrhB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Commentary Donald J. Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrumpTruthOnX\/status\/2089671371693728188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/trump-posts-image-depicting-strait-of-hormuz-as-us-territory\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran responds by warning that Trump\u2019s \u201cdelusion\u201d will either be corrected or Tehran will set him straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":330171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,51,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway","category-Iran","category-iran-u-s-israel-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330172,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330169\/revisions\/330172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/330171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}