Jon Sopel

We have got to a place where Trump believes that he is the saviour of this war now, not the perpetrator.

You can't just come in and sort of, you know, play the white knight.

Does anyone believe him?

They're calling it Project Freedom.

America trying to tell the rest of the world it's safe to go through the Strait of Hormuz.

Does anyone believe them?

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Everything that Pete Hegsworth says is just mildly funny, isn't it?

I mean, totally atrocious, but also very funny.

And I think this goes to the heart of what Trump is now offering.

He's decided to basically create what he thinks of as a humanitarian corridor, as if he's actually offering salvation to ships that have been sort of marooned there because of Iran.

I mean, this is how he thinks it is working.

And he's essentially...

created this idea, Project Freedom, which means that America, as if it were some neutral country stepping into this terrible humanitarian crisis, is going to be the sort of defender of last resort, you know, the security guarantor for all these ships and lead them to safety.

Now, it doesn't really make sense because America...

is a key player in this.

So, of course, as soon as America shows that it is interested in trying to create that role, Iran is just stepping up and going, well, no, you don't.

Sorry.

No, you don't.

We've got this.