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“THAT SUCKER IS OPEN” — TRUMP DECLARES HORMUZ UNDER AMERICAN WATCH President Trump, August 27, on the Strait of Hormuz: “That sucker is open. The Iranian response is very mild. They don’t want us to go back at them. That’s the whole ball game. The rest doesn’t matter.” He has called the waterway American territory in all but deed. He put a 20 percent fee on cargo through it and reimposed a blockade on Iranian ports. He told the Navy to sweep the mines and Space Force to stare at the replacements. When IRGC crews staged new mines on Larak, the launchers died the same day. Iran’s parliament can vote to keep the strait closed. Oman can talk corridors. None of that moves a tanker. What moves a tanker is a swept lane and a President who will crater the next boat that seeds it. Twenty percent of the world’s seaborne energy used to ask Tehran for permission. That era is over. The sucker is open because American ships and American satellites made it open. Keep it that way.