Giddy Trump Celebrates Opening of Strait of Hormuz

Donald Trump, who has spent weeks pretending to be indifferent about the status of the Strait of Hormuz, on Friday reacted like a giddy teenager scoring Taylor Swift tickets to the news that the waterway was open to commercial traffic again.

“A GREAT AND BRILLIANT DAY FOR THE WORLD!” he wrote in a social media post that followed an entire string of celebratory messages.

The president also praised Pakistan’s leaders for their role in negotiating the deal that allowed the Strait of Hormuz to be opened, thanked Iran for helping remove sea mines from the waterway, and expressed his gratitude to the region’s US allies.

Trump’s joyful exuberance is a testament to how much of a political headache the closure of the Strait had become for him and his administration — his claims to the contrary notwithstanding — and how effective Iran’s response to the US and Israeli attacks has been.

Outmatched militarily, Tehran fought back by shutting down traffic through the narrow maritime passage off its coast. This caused oil prices to skyrocket and plunged the global economy into turmoil. In the US, gasoline prices soared above $4 per gallon and served as a constant reminder of an unpopular war.

While Trump will hope that prices drop immediately, experts believe that the effects of the conflict will be felt for weeks and months — even if hostilities do not resume again. And that is the big question now.

In announcing the reopening of the Strait, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi tied Tehran’s decision to open the waterway to the ceasefire in Lebanon.

Trump later disputed this in one of his own posts, which shows that the two sides are still not on the same page… at least not publicly.

For example, the president also stated that Iran had agreed “to never close the Strait of Hormuz again,” which seems unlikely, and that the US blockade would continue.

Finally, no deal has yet been reached on ending Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and securing Iran’s enriched uranium.

All of these issues, and Israel’s apparent desire to keep fighting, could cause the conflict to flare back up.

For now, however, global markets breathed a collective sigh of relief because it looks as though there is a real chance that the region might return to the pre-war status quo — which really demonstrates the pointlessness of the war.

If the ceasefire holds and a permanent peace can be negotiated, it just remains to be seen for how long the effects of the conflict will linger.

Finally, in all of his excitement, Trump did not forget to take a shot at his NATO allies.

“Now that the Hormuz Strait situation is over, I received a call from NATO asking if we would need some help,” he wrote. “I TOLD THEM TO STAY AWAY, UNLESS THEY JUST WANT TO LOAD UP THEIR SHIPS WITH OIL. They were useless when needed, a Paper Tiger!”

Apparently, and this is also reminiscent of a teenager, the president simply cannot live without drama — even on a day when things went well for him for a change.