US President Trump posts "We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait! Thank you for your attention to this matter."

• "I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S. The Blue States, such as Minnesota, California, Illinois, and many more, are all poorly run, corrupt disasters. Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month. Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal activity. CORRUPTION is in the Democrat Leadership’s blood! We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT"

Rhetoric of this kind on Iran has historically moved oil through the risk premium channel rather than through any actual change in flows: front-month crude bids first, freight and insurance costs on Gulf loadings second, with the move unwinding quickly when no supply disruption follows. The distinction worth drawing is between language that signals escalation toward the Strait of Hormuz and language that signals disengagement, and this post reads as the latter, a stated lack of interest in a deal rather than a threat of blockade or interdiction. Claims of physical control over the strait are unverified and sit well outside any established fact pattern; episodes where rhetoric has outrun reality have tended to fade within sessions. The transmission when it does occur runs through Brent and WTI prompt spreads, Gulf tanker rates, and the energy equity complex, with gold and the franc absorbing the residual haven bid. What bears watching is whether the post foreshadows a formal shift in sanctions or enforcement posture, since previous cycles of maximum-pressure language have alternated with quiet back-channel engagement, and the tell has been subsequent Treasury or State Department action rather than the social media text itself.