President Donald Trump told Americans to accept slightly higher gasoline prices as the cost of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and said he would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory.⁣ ⁣ "Just remember you're doing it so that a very evil country cannot have…We don't want to have them have a nuclear weapon."⁣ ⁣ "And after we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I'll be declaring the Hormuz Strait, a territory of the United States."⁣ ⁣ Around roughly 20% of global oil and LNG shipments usually pass through the Strait of Hormuz. ⁣ ⁣ #DonaldTrump #GasPrices #StraitOfHormuz #Iran