{"id":21030,"date":"2026-04-07T01:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-suggests-us-could-charge-toll-for-strait-of-hormuz-passage\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:22:07","slug":"trump-suggests-us-could-charge-toll-for-strait-of-hormuz-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-suggests-us-could-charge-toll-for-strait-of-hormuz-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump suggests US could charge toll for Strait of Hormuz passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump suggested Monday that the U.S. could impose its own tolls on vessels trying to transit through the Strait of Hormuz &mdash; a strategy employed by Iran as it continues to control the key energy shipping choke point. During a White House press conference, a reporter asked Trump whether he would end the war&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5818431-trump-us-tolls-strait-of-hormuz\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump suggested Monday that the U.S. could impose its own tolls on vessels trying to transit through the Strait of Hormuz &mdash; a strategy employed by Iran as it continues to control the key energy shipping choke point. During a White House press conference, a reporter asked Trump whether he would end the war&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}