"Iran must agree that they will never have a Nuclear Weapon or Bomb. The Hormuz Strait must be immediately open, no tolls, for unrestricted shipping traffic, in both directions."
On the morning of May 29, before convening the Situation Room for a 'final determination,' Trump laid out U.S. terms for Iran in a Truth Social post: no nuclear weapon, an immediately reopened Strait of Hormuz with no tolls, removal of sea mines, and U.S.-led excavation and destruction of the buried enriched uranium ('Nuclear Dust'). The same post lifted the naval blockade for trapped ships and signed off telling crews to greet their families 'from me, your favorite President.'
Outlets framed the week's posts as a source of 'confusion' — a deal 'largely negotiated,' then 'not even fully negotiated,' then terms by post. The actual content (a national-security ultimatum and a blockade decision issued via social media, terms mixed with a personal sign-off) was covered as messaging chaos rather than the channel through which policy was now being set.
This is how the strait policy was actually announced — not in a signed order or a briefing, but in a post that set a hard ultimatum next to 'your favorite President.' When the medium is a social feed and the content is a blockade, the format is the story the press kept filing as a sidebar.