{"id":595259,"date":"2026-05-02T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=595259"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:05:00","slug":"trump-on-hormuz-blockade-were-like-pirates-and-its-very-profitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=595259","title":{"rendered":"Trump On Hormuz Blockade: “We’re Like Pirates – And It’s Very Profitable”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump On Hormuz Blockade: “We’re Like Pirates – And It’s Very Profitable”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rare agreement with Iranian officials?\u00a0President Trump has newly said the US Navy is acting “like pirates” <\/strong>as he described an operation about seizing a ship amid the ongoing blockade of Iranian ports.<\/p>\n

“We \u2026 land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It\u2019s a very profitable business,” Trump told a large audience at a rally in Florida on Friday. “We\u2019re like pirates,”<\/strong> he added as the crow cheered him on. “We\u2019re sort of like pirates. But we\u2019re not playing games.”\u00a0<\/strong>Watch the US President also declare “it’s a very profitable business”<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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TRUMP ADMITS AMERICANS ARE PIRATES<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very profitable business. We\u2019re like pirates.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/p7g6kMPCmG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) May 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The irony in this statement is that it precisely echoes Tehran’s own accusation that the Pentagon is indeed engaged in ‘piracy’ in Persian Gulf waters, and as the US seeks to interdict other Iranian vessels on the high seas globally, especially near Asia.<\/p>\n

This week Iran issued<\/a> formal request to the UN Security Council that it stop the “continuing internationally wrongful acts of the United States through yet another piracy-style seizure and deliberate targeting of commercial vessels<\/strong>, namely the M\/T Majestic and M\/T Tifani.”<\/p>\n

Some of Iran’s embassies abroad have also directly responded to the fresh Trump piracy clip. Here’s what the Iranian Foreign Ministry had to say on X through one of its diplomatic outposts in south Asia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Sort of like pirates”? No, Donny\u2014that’s textbook piracy. One upside to an incompetent opponent: moments like this<\/strong>. But the crowd cheering and clapping along? That’s the truly disturbing part. U.S. urgently needs a swift and serious regime change.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Additionally, one show host with Russia’s RT had this to say by way of reaction<\/a>: “The only good thing about Trump is that he openly admits the US is a rogue state that doesn\u2019t care at all about international law, he doesn’t bother to cover up the US\u2019 heinous actions with the bogus liberal PR language that previous Presidents used<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

It is also akin to when Trump became the first US leader to declare that American troops were in Syria to “secure the oil”<\/strong>\u00a0– contradicting prior presidents and officials who insisted Washington was merely engaged in ‘counter-ISIS’ operations.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Iran\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has said on X this week Americans have an “undeniable right and the solemn duty” to demand accountability from the White House over the ongoing US-Israel “war of choice” against Iran.<\/p>\n

The war is “a clear, unprovoked act of aggression” – he stated, and called on Americans to rise up challenge their leaders for “waging this illegal war against the nation of Iran and for all the atrocities perpetrated.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 05\/02\/2026 – 18:05<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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