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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

Trump can’t get his spelling ‘Straight’ in post bashing US allies over Hormuz refusal

President Donald Trump appeared to implicitly threaten to leave America’s allies to their own devices as far as getting oil moving through a key waterway after his war against Iran is over — even as he struggled to spell the waterway’s name.

Writing on Truth Social early Wednesday, Trump mused: “I wonder what would happen if we ‘finished off’ what's left of the Iranian Terror State, and let the Countries that use it, we don't, be responsible for the so called ‘Straight?’ That would get some of our non-responsive "Allies" in gear, and fast!!!”

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