Donald Trump has taken the fight over the Strait of Hormuz into stranger territory still, floating the idea of American tolls on the vital shipping lane in a Truth Social post on Friday, 20 June 2026, as the fragile US-Iran ceasefire entered its 60-day window.
The president said there would be no tolls during the ceasefire period or after it, unless the United States itself imposed them, a line that put Washington, not Tehran, at the centre of the dispute.
