"This war was started by BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA and JOE BIDEN and we've been fighting it for over 47 years now! I'm putting an end to it because I am the Peace President!" reads the supposed Truth Social post from Trump, which circulated March 16, 2026.
"This week I will be creating the Hormuz Peace Board where our so called coward NATO allies are not welcome, many real allies have already expressed desire to join this once in a lifetime opportunity to secure the Hormuz for peace!"
The image spread across platforms including Facebook, Instagram and X -- and also in multiple languages, such as Spanish, Arabic and French.
The alleged screenshot comes as US allies in NATO, the Western political and military alliance, have largely rebuffed Trump's calls to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil traffic.
Since US-Israeli strikes killed Iran's supreme leader February 28 and plunged the Middle East into war, Tehran has targeted the energy facilities of crude-producing nations in the region while attacking tankers transiting the strait, all but closing the vital sea passage.
Trump has repeatedly championed himself the "president of peace" and in February held the inaugural meeting of his "Board of Peace," a body created to uphold the Gaza ceasefire that has morphed into a would-be United Nations featuring several authoritarians.
But the purported Truth Social post announcing the creation of a "Hormuz Peace Board" is fabricated.
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