VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-26
“We've totally cleared the strait of mines. … Any boat goes through with a mine, we take it out,”
President Trump · said 2026-08-26 · reported 2026-08-26
President Trump claimed during an Oval Office event that the U.S. had cleared the Strait of Hormuz of mines.
This quote was mechanically extracted from the cited article and verified as an exact substring of the source text before publication. Attribution follows the article's own wording.