Called on China

The president also called on China to pitch in, noting that the country imports roughly 90% of its oil through the waterway.

“We’d like to know before that. It’s [two weeks is] a long time … We may delay,” he said, without specifying how long.

Trump also criticized NATO members for offering minimal assistance.

“We have a thing called NATO. We’ve been very sweet. We didn’t have to help them with Ukraine. Ukraine is thousands of miles away from us… But we helped them,” he said.

“Now we’ll see if they help us. Because I’ve long said that we’ll be there for them, but they won’t be there for us. And I’m not sure that they’d be there.”

He singled out the UK for not fully committing, recalling a conversation with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

“The UK might be considered the number one ally… and when I asked for them to come, they didn’t want to come. And as soon as we basically wiped out the danger capacity from Iran, they said, ‘Oh well, we’ll send two ships,’ and I said, ‘We need these ships before we win, not after we win.’”

Trump also hinted that the U.S. could strike Iran’s oil infrastructure again.

“You saw we hit Kharg Island, everything but the pipes yesterday. We can hit that in five minutes. And there’s not a thing they can do about it,” he said, referring to the key oil-loading hub off the Iranian coast.