{"id":287092,"date":"2026-07-28T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=287092"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:43:55","slug":"trump-thanks-morocco-for-naming-highway-in-his-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/287092\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump thanks Morocco for naming highway in his honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>US President Donald Trump has thanked Morocco&rsquo;s King Mohammed VI after the country named a major new highway in his honor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zacharyfolk\/2026\/07\/26\/trump-indicates-morocco-is-naming-a-highway-after-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thank you to Highly Respected Mohammed VI, the King of Morocco &mdash; Such a Great Honor!&rdquo; Trump wrote on Truth Social, sharing a video of the highway named &ldquo;President Donald J. Trump Highway.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I look forward to traveling the entire length of this Great Highway someday, hopefully soon!&rdquo; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The highway stretches 1,055 kilometers, connecting the city of Tiznit to Laayoune and Dakhla, both in the Moroccan-controlled disputed territory of Western Sahara.<\/p>\n<p>The accompanying video thanked Trump for his &ldquo;historic courage&rdquo;&mdash;Trump previously supported Morocco&rsquo;s claim to Western Sahara in 2025 and during his first term.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute over Western Sahara is primarily between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front movement.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has thanked Morocco&rsquo;s King Mohammed VI after the country named a major new highway in his honor, Forbes reports. &ldquo;Thank you to Highly Respected Mohammed VI, the King of Morocco &mdash; Such a Great Honor!&rdquo; Trump wrote on Truth Social, sharing a video of the highway named &ldquo;President Donald J. Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":287052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287094,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287092\/revisions\/287094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}