The Post quoted a senior Trump administration official saying, "We will take back that strait, and they (Iran) will never intimidate us there." The official added, "He believes that if we secure, manage, control, and guarantee freedom of navigation there, why should it still be called Hormuz?"
Trump himself made a spontaneous remark suggesting the name change at a public event. While speaking at the Future Investment Initiative summit in Miami on the 27th, he referred to the Strait of Hormuz as the "Trump Strait," then immediately corrected himself: "I mean the Strait of Hormuz."
U.S. media largely treated the comment as one of Trump's characteristic jokes, but some analysts cautioned it may not have been a simple slip given his propensity for affixing symbolic place names to himself. The White House called it "an interesting idea" but said it is not under consideration at this time.
Trump has previously demonstrated an unusual fixation on stamping "America" or his own name onto prominent place names and monuments. Last year, he used an executive order to abruptly change the official name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America." He also changed the name of Washington, D.C.'s historic Kennedy Center to the "Trump-Kennedy Center."
