President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to bomb a US ally in the Middle East if it gets in the way of a perpetually elusive deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Speaking with Fox News, Trump was asked about talks that Iran and Oman have been conducting about jointly overseeing operations of the strait, which has been shut down ever since Trump started an illegal war in late February.
Trump replied that “if Oman gets in the way” of reopening the strait, “we’ll bomb the shit out of them.”
.@POTUS on parallel talks between Iran and Oman on the Strait of Hormuz: “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them.” pic.twitter.com/5dEXDOdAN4
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 17, 2026
It is unclear how effective Trump’s threats against Oman will be, as the US military still hasn’t forced Iran to reopen the strait even after burning through massive stocks of munitions—including what military sources have described to The Military Times as “virtually all” of its Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM).
As Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft noted, the president previously threatened Oman when the country put forward proposals for a compromise on control of the strait.
Trump’s warning to Oman comes as the closure of the strait is once again putting upward pressure on petroleum prices.
According to a Monday report from Reuters, data from maritime vessel tracking firm Kpler shows that “shipping appeared to grind to a near standstill” over the weekend, as only “five commodity vessels transited the strait on Saturday, with none registered for Sunday.”
As Reuters noted, an average of 130 ships typically passed through the strait daily prior to the start of Trump’s illegal war.
The price of Brent crude jumped over $89 per barrel during Monday trading, while data released by the American Automobile Association shows the average price of gas in the US now stands at $4.06 per gallon, up from $4.01 in the week prior.
The Wall Street Journal on Sunday reported that Iran believes that the war has been going so well that it has concocted a “secret plan” to escalate it, using the June ceasefire with the US to take time “to prepare for a bigger fight.”
“Arab intelligence officials have picked up evidence… of a strategic shift inside the country’s hard-line leadership to get their forces ready to widen the war and raise the costs for the US,” the Journal reported. “Their overriding goal is to inflict enough pain to ensure the kind of attacks Iran has endured with the 12-day war last year and the continuing conflict aren’t repeated.”
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He wants those tolls all to himself and he will not let it go now, he’s got that narcissist fixation on it.
The pedo probably can’t even point to Oman on a map…
With what, you dumbfuck? You basically used half of your arsenal (if not more) trying to bomb a country and got nothing out of it. Now, with your arsenal halved, you are trying to bomb TWO countries at the same time? And you think you’ll “bomb the shit out” of them?
Wow, keep going, Hitler wannabe, the US are going to be irrelevant before the end of your mandate… Scratch that, at this rate, they’ll be irrelevant by 2027.
He’s trying to lay the groundwork to use a nuke
Is that a declaration of war against yet another country?
I’m sure this time there’s gonna be a vote in congress about it
Republicans think rules should not apply to them.
