President Donald Trump hosts a lunch with the Kennedy Center Board members as House Speaker Mike Johnson (L) looks on at the White House on March 16, 2026. Annabelle Gordon/AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump said Monday that several nations will send warships to join the United States Navy in escorting commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz but expressed disappointment that several key NATO “big boys,” notably the United Kingdom and Germany, have not responded to his call for a joint operation.
“Numerous countries have told me they’re on the way,” he said at a Trump-Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts luncheon. ”Some are very enthusiastic about it. Some are in countries that we’ve helped for many, many years.”
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