Jon Sopel

This is part of the economic war that we've waged.

You started this.

You didn't know where you were taking it.

And you can't just come in and sort of, you

But he was asked on The Hugh Hewitt Show, this is Trump, if the ceasefire was now over.

Because after, you know, America assumed this role, Iran started attacking, then looks if America is responding.

And this is what Trump said when he was asked about the ceasefire.

And basically, this is because Trump is rejecting the assertion that the US has sunk seven small boats.

That's what the US said, saying actually it had struck two very small boats carrying people, killing five civilian passengers.

That's according to Iran's news agency.

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

He is seeing himself in a sort of new light, as in the sort of the liberator of the Strait of Tehran, of the Strait of Hormuz of Tehran.

And this is clearly just not going to go down well to anyone who thinks that there is still business to be done.

But anyway, if you're Trump, you can shoot down boats.

Yeah.

And meanwhile, America is losing allies in the Gulf, not because they are attacking, but because Iran is attacking places that it formerly was leaving well alone.

One of the Emirates, Fujairah, I mean, it's the pub quiz.

Can you name all the seven Emirates?

But this is the one that people don't often have on their list, which has got a very big industrial oil zone there.

And Iran has come in, hit the Gulf state, basically made India incredibly unhappy.