Trump claims 'numerous countries' are sending ships to help with Hormuz but refuses to name any

At the Kennedy Center press conference, Trump claimed 'Numerous countries have told me they're on the way. Some are very enthusiastic about it, and some aren't.' When pressed to name which countries had committed forces, Trump said 'I'd rather not say yet.' He added 'They've already started to -- it takes a little while to get there. In some cases, you have to travel an ocean.' He also referenced an unnamed country where the US has '45,000 soldiers,' saying he asked if they had minesweepers and was told 'Well, would rather not get involved, sir.' No country publicly confirmed any commitment. Germany, Australia, Japan, Poland, Sweden, Spain, Italy, and the UK had all explicitly declined. The claim of unnamed countries rushing to help while every named country refused was a transparent fabrication, following Trump's well-established pattern of inventing support that doesn't exist to project strength.

"Numerous countries have told me they're on the way" — Said at Kennedy Center press conference while refusing to name any country; every country publicly named had already declined to participate