He increased the pressure on Britain and France, saying he expected them to help secure shipping in the strategically critical waterway during the war against Iran.
Mr Trump said he had talked with French President Emmanuel Macron about it and the French leader’s response had been “an eight, not perfect”.
“I think he’s going to help,” Mr Trump said, adding that he also thinks the UK could be involved in a Hormuz mission.
He gave no concrete details, only saying that his Secretary of State Marco Rubio would announce the “coalition”.
Neither country has confirmed any involvement in a US-led mission to the strait.
A Downing Street spokesperson confirmed that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer discussed the need to reopen the strait with Mr Trump and with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, but made no mention of a mission having been agreed.
EU foreign ministers have “no appetite” for extending the bloc’s Red Sea naval mission to help re-open the strait, its top diplomat said after talks in Brussels.
Restarting the flow of shipments of “fertilisers, food and energy” was an “urgent priority”, Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, told a press conference.
But a proposal to change the mandate of the EU’s naval mission in the Red Sea, Operation Aspides, to help with securing the strait drew little enthusiasm from member states, she added.
“There was in our discussions a clear wish to strengthen this operation, but for the time being, there was no appetite in changing the mandate,” Ms Kallas said, after a meeting with foreign ministers from the EU’s 27 nations in the Belgian capital.
“Nobody wants to go actively in this war,” she added.
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