Steve HermanUS Navy will begin the blocking all ships from the Strait of Hormuz, announces President Trump.
“I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas. We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits,” adds Trump.
Trump concludes a lengthy Truth Social post by warning that “at an appropriate moment, we are fully ‘LOCKED AND LOADED,’ and our Military will finish up the little that is left of Iran!”
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Ultra Verified 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Just what you'd expect, an outburst from a 4 year old who is playing at cops and robbers.
He's a delusional crackpot.
'Pa 
@newsguyusa Falling for the Afghan trap, again... they're going to spend $10 "securing" the Strait for every $1 of oil that makes it through. 🤦♂️
V_B_R@newsguyusa Khomeini died in 1989.
João Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)@V_B_R this is the guy that said he talked with a US President that wanted to attack Iran but never did it, and every living one said they never talked about it with Trump. The Orange Romulus Augustus might be really talking to Khomeini or Khamenei (senior)...
[Edit: I'm not forgetting he might be talking to them through Milei's dead dog spirit /s]
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[Edit: I'm not forgetting he might be talking to them through Milei's dead dog spirit /s]
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MycotropicWhy a guy would pick Commodus as a leadership role model I really don't know !
Welkin@newsguyusa
Yeah this is extortion. Yes what #Iran is doing is horrible. #Iran cannot lay claim to strait of #Hormuz. It is not Suez nor Panama canal.
What does #DJT expect other countries to do? Not pay a toll and watch their economies evaporate? Watch famine spread because urea is not available? He has lost his marbles.
If #Iran is able to extract a toll from countries then it is because of #EpicFury and thanks to #Trump.
AlexandradalImitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
stony kark@newsguyusa this is america
T2R@newsguyusa 25th amendment NOW. Impeach NOW. DO SOMETHING CONGRESS!
Didn't we drop Iranian oil sanctions and buy up a couple of tanker ships with right at the start of Trump's insane, AI based failure of an attack on Iran?
Lightfighter@mycotropic It's our new, coherence optional, strategy.
Sarah W@newsguyusa
Can he actually do this? Surely it's against international Law? Although it's never stopped him before.
Can he actually do this? Surely it's against international Law? Although it's never stopped him before.
Dud (Mx)@Sarahw @newsguyusa it's called piracy, and it's illegal.
Miha Markič@BackFromTheDud @Sarahw @newsguyusa It's worse, it's state piracy. I bet nobody, at least in the west, will bat an eye.
@mihamarkic @BackFromTheDud @Sarahw @newsguyusa
#Somalia has also entered the chat.
divVerent@Sarahw @newsguyusa No worries, he'll make an exception for Russia. Then it's apparently fine.
@newsguyusa Piracy? From the USA?🤔
JillL@BackFromTheDud @newsguyusa Venezuela was a warm up.
crouton@newsguyusa is this leading to the insane next step of Trump attempting to charge tolls at Hormuz?
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Next up: the US will start charging tolls for safe passage through the Strait.
Next up: the US will start charging tolls for safe passage through the Strait.
frank87@crispius @newsguyusa and then next: building a castle on the Iranian shore of the strait. Or an army base...
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Tomasz Oryński@newsguyusa what if my ship pays 2 million dollars to the US? Can I go THEN? :)
Kalle Kniivilä@TOrynski @newsguyusa Only if you pay directly to the Donald.
Quark Maker@newsguyusa The worrying part is whether or not the military will go along with him. Whatever the response is, it will show the extent to which the military is MAGA-fied, and that will serve as an eye-opener for all of us.
Nazani@newsguyusa Groovy, let's claim that every Russian ship has paid a toll to Iran.
Seriously, is the US surveilling every shipping company so we can tell who transferred funds to Iran? Or does he think Iranians in a small boat came out & passed the hat around the tanker's crew?
Seriously, is the US surveilling every shipping company so we can tell who transferred funds to Iran? Or does he think Iranians in a small boat came out & passed the hat around the tanker's crew?
RealGene ☣️@newsguyusa
"We're going to use the ships we interdict to sweep for the mines by sailing them back and forth until they've all been sunk."
Trump, some time in the next hour.
Danie van der Merwe@newsguyusa Trump has absolutely zero right to do this as it is not off the coast of the USA. It's like he is deliberately stirring up more and more trouble with everyone. He has already committed murder on the high seas.
So the US is going to resort to piracy. Again. He interesting if a NATO country's ship is attacked.
Come on cholesterol - do your thing on the Orange shitgibbon.
The Digital Coolie 🇵🇸🇮🇷🇱🇧🇾🇪🇮🇶"We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits,” adds Trump.
Any ship can be a minesweeper... Once.
Oliver SchafeldSomeone had a hypothetical question some time ago. What if Trump decides to take a cut from any ship with cargo from a country that "wasn't nice to him"?
Renke Meuwese@newsguyusa China won't be happy with this, I'd assume?
Darwin WoodkaNo, no they are not
Mike@newsguyusa so, the US Navy are pirates now?
((Jann Gobble)) 🏳️🌈
Fubaroque@newsguyusa If we can't get through, nobody can! Is that the idea? 🤔 😵💫
Dave 🐶@newsguyusa Wait... isn't that the problem already???
Rob Johnston 🍁@newsguyusa I expect China to now enter the chat.
Same, I think Xi is about to end this whole fucking mess
Gjermund Søreng@newsguyusa Okay!?! Why? Isn’t it what Iran is doing already?
Andrew Deacon@newsguyusa WWW 3 incoming in 10,9,8...
FediThing 
How does that help anyone? 
Metin Seven 🎨@FediThing @newsguyusa Warfare using the lethal CAPITAL LETTERS weapon. 🤡
It's sort of the equivalent of Roosevelt saying "Oh you bombed Pearl Harbor? Okay we'll bomb Pearl Harbor too!"
It makes no sense at all.
Alex P Roe 
@FediThing @newsguyusa It’s Trump - you don’t expect common sense, do you?! 😉
Trump won't be happy until oil is at $200 bbl
A "wink wink nudge nudge" to his pal Putin.
Hugh Ferguson@Ultraverified @newsguyusa I believe this is as much aimed at Russia as the rest of the world. The US is un-sanctioning some Russian oil as a pressure valve, but the goal is complete control of the oil trade. The real target is China, whose oil comes from Russia, Iran, and Venezuela. How dare they de-dollarize.
Piglet@newsguyusa You're squeezing our balls but we can squeeze our balls even harder
Gondor@newsguyusa
Am *really* curious how everybody* will react to that.
This is not only playing around with world economy anymore. Crazy enough.😬 This is a direct attack on everybody elses economy.
*Europe *everybody else who is relying on an open Strait. (Asia...)
me_valentijn@newsguyusa
More blocking = bigger victory than unblocking? 🤔
More blocking = bigger victory than unblocking? 🤔
Kevin Karhan@newsguyusa so because #Trump isn't making.money, he goes full spoiled brat and doesn't let others have it either…
@newsguyusa this fits very frighteningly with the theory that what is going on is that the US wants to control the worlds oil supply. If they can't unblock the Strait of Hormuz, they will ensure that no BRICS or non-US $ denominated traffic gets through. This is full-on piracy. This will see two possible outcomes - one where the US empire spans the entire globe with China and Russia subservient, or WW III
Cowgirl Carol@newsguyusa Another WTF? moment. I am so sick that no one will rein him in by any means necessary.
Dizzy@newsguyusa and that will achieve?
Thomas Sturm@newsguyusa This might piss off China and India.
KevinFlynn 
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Uh... NOBODY asked for that.
Uh... NOBODY asked for that.
Phil the Eagle@newsguyusa Chinese ships? NATO ships? If you think about this for even two seconds this might be the dumbest thing he's done throughout this whole debacle.