Hard reality again upends Trump’s claims of an open Hormuz

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 19, 2025. REUTERS Ken Cedeno

President Donald Trump was eager to claim victory on a ceasefire deal with Iran, which he unilaterally declared war on a few weeks ago.

The historically unpopular president is facing midterm destruction of his party in November and was keen to proclaim success on his explosive war, which has similarly blown U.S. and global fuel prices from the water within the last month. Trump declared at a Friday TPUSA event that Iran has agreed to virtually all of his demands to end its nuclear program forever, and that “No money will exchange hands in any way, shape or form.”

But even as MAGA crowed victory on social media Iran officials were throwing Trump’s claims in reverse through both word and deed.

The Guardian reported on Saturday that Iranian military’s operational command, Khatam Al-Anbiya, described Trump’s ongoing US blockade of the strait as “piracy,” and declared the region under the strict control of the armed forces “until the U.S. restores the complete freedom of navigation for vessels from an Iranian origin to a destination, and from a destination back to Iran.”

Critics on social media were quick to blast Trump’s Friday claims the next day as the Iranian reality came to light Saturday.

“Trump is entirely full of sh——,” posted former MS NOW anchor Keith Olbermann on X. “There is no deal with Iran. Its leaders insist the strait is closed. The emperor not only has no clothes; he has no brain.”

“But if the Strait of Hormuz is open again, they've agreed on pretty much everything, Iran has agreed to let the US take its enriched Uranium without paying any money, and he's ‘decimated’ their military, why threaten to go back to war? Could what he says not be entirely true?” asked criminal defense attorney Scott Greenfield on X.

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