Kevin Dietsch / Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A prominent ally of President Donald Trump endorsed a wild idea to aid in the president’s war on Iran: nuking the Strait of Hormuz. Newt Gingrich, 82, shared an article by the ChinaTalk Substack on Sunday that proposed the idea of detonating thermonuclear bombs along the Strait of Hormuz to open up the canal’s shipping lanes. Read more at The Daily Beast.