Trump makes huge gaffes because he takes no advice, because he is sure that ANY idea that pops into his head must be pure genius. Trump is unedited. His staff contains people like Pulte, a home builder.

President Donald Trump on Friday said he would designate the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States “pretty soon” as the status of the waterway, a global chokepoint through which a fifth of global oil and gas passes, remains under a military and diplomatic deadlock.