President Donald Trump has insisted Iran must “open up the Strait of Trump” and complained about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize in a meandering speech at the Future Investment Initiative Institute summit in Miami, Florida.
The president claimed Iran is “begging to make a deal” with the U.S. before he referred to the Strait of Hormuz as the “Strait of Trump” during the Friday evening event.
“We’re negotiating now, and it’d be great if we could do something, but they have to open it up. They have to open up the Strait of Trump — I mean, Hormuz. Excuse me, I’m so sorry, such a terrible mistake,” Trump said.
“The fake news will say he accidentally said — there’s no accidents with me, not too many. If there were, we’d have a major story,” he added.
The president’s remarks come a day after he announced a 10-day pause on strikes against Iran’s energy plants.
The president also used his speech to again complain about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize last year.
“If I don’t get the Nobel Prize for peace, nobody will ever get it. I didn’t get it. I’m not surprised. The person that got it was shocked — she’s a wonderful woman too, by the way,” he said.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the prize in 2025 and later presented her award to the president, who called the offer “such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect” at the time.
The president told attendees he wants to be known as a “great peacemaker.”
“I know it doesn’t sound right for me to say this, but I’d love my legacy to be made as a great peacemaker, because I really believe I’m a peacemaker. It doesn’t seem it right now, but I think I’m a peacemaker,” he said.
The president again boasted he has “stopped eight wars”, a claim which has been repeatedly debunked.
The death toll continues to climb in the conflict in Iran started by the U.S. and Israel last month. Eighteen people have died in Israel and four Israeli soldiers have been killed in Lebanon, according to the Associated Press. Two Israeli soldiers were severely injured in Lebanon on Friday during an “operational accident,” the military said.
Authorities said more than 1,100 people have died in Lebanon and over 1,900 people have been killed in Iran. At least 13 American troops have been killed and four people in the occupied West Bank and 20 in Gulf Arab states have also died.
While the president was speaking Friday evening, the AP reported an Iranian missile attack wounded at least 10 American service members at Prince Sultan Air Base, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the situation. Two of the troops were seriously wounded, one of the officials told AP.
During his remarks, Trump also played a clip of CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten discussing an NBC News poll last week. The survey found 100 percent of MAGA voters support the president.
Enten also recently gave Trump a “reality check” about his popularity.
“President Trump is quite popular with MAGA. MAGA very much enjoys this war. They very much love the president,” Enten said Thursday on CNN’s “The Source.”
“But of course, they are just a certain portion of the electorate. When you expand it out, the reality check is this: Donald Trump has never been more unpopular in his second term in office,” he added.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Tuesday found the president’s overall approval rating is now at 36 percent, marking its lowest point since he took office last year.
The Associated Press contributed reporting.
