Politics
President Trump said he would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory, framing it as something that would happen after the US finishes defeating Iran. Iran rejected the claim as delusional, and Trump also warned that the US would bomb Oman if it interfered in the conflict. A White House official later told a reporter that Trump had been joking and had not discussed the territory declaration with administration officials.
Guardian, NBC, and Al Jazeera frame the story with skepticism about seriousness/feasibility, emphasizing Iran's defiant rebuttal, legal/practical impossibility of annexation, low US public support for the war, and Trump's pattern of bombastic threats followed by pullbacks -- casting the claim as an 'outlandish' or unserious rhetorical move.
DW's brief item states Trump's Hormuz territory claim and links it to Americans needing to accept higher gas prices, framing it as a straightforward policy/economic consequence story without extensive analysis or skepticism.
New York Post frames the story around Trump's aggressive rhetoric toward Oman ('bomb the s--t out of them') with the Hormuz territory claim as secondary context, emphasizing toughness and midterm political stakes from gas prices.