{"id":433583,"date":"2026-07-13T19:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/trump-were-taking-over-the-strait-of-hormuz-433583\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T19:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:33:06","slug":"trump-were-taking-over-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/trump-were-taking-over-the-strait-of-hormuz-433583\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: We&#8217;re taking over the Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>This is a comment that sounds like a resumption of the war in Iran. Trump didn&#8217;t TACO at the start of the week, so we will have to see where oil goes from here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran has nothing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>So that really is the question. Can Iran close the Strait?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If not, how long does the US want to keep its navy in the region to fight drones flying at ships crossing the Strait?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a deal and they broke it,&#8221; he said of the Strait.<\/p>\n<p>He then seemed to indicate that it will be the US taking tolls in the region, saying &#8220;we&#8217;re going to get paid for guarding the Strait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There has been an extension of some of today&#8217;s moves on these headlines, with the euro and gold dipping.<\/p>\n<p>WTI crude oil was last up $2.68 to $74.09.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to keep the strait, and we&#8217;ll probably run it. We&#8217;ll become the guardian of the strait. Maybe we&#8217;ll call it the guardian angel of the strait. And we should be reimbursed for that,&#8221; he said in phone interview on Fox.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by flc97fe4880a4b454993821fe0b770a597 at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a comment that sounds like a resumption of the war in Iran. Trump didn&#8217;t TACO at the start of the week, so we will have to see where oil goes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}