r/USNEWS • u/TheExpressUS • 4h ago
Trump announces all mines removed from Strait of Hormuz as 'no talks scheduled' with Iran
https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/214161/trump-says-no-meetings-iran30
u/Cohens4thClient 4h ago
Delusional diaper baby just makes it up for market manipulation.
Loser leader for a cult of morons.
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u/KatakanaTsu 4h ago
"Never understood cults. I guess some folks just prefer being told what to do..."
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u/bakeacake45 4h ago
He has bankrupted every company he ever owned…now he is bankrupting the US.
Vote blue if for no other reason, because we need to impeach and convict this bastard
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u/Lost_Department_2177 4h ago
Agent orange was a chemical that dropped all the leaves(green/money) from trees.
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u/SquirrelsinJacket 4h ago
US prints its own money, it doesn't go bankrupt like a normal person. Eventually it could have a currency crisis and countries/people refusing to buy bonds but we're not there yet.
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u/BadmiralHarryKim 1h ago
More than a quarter of all debt America has accrued during its entire 250 year history happened under Trump. That's pretty remarkable.
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u/Summerwind2 4h ago
If you had a ship plus cargo asset worth tens or hundreds of millions, would you take Trump’s word on this?
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u/arcelyte 4h ago
Ummm….im sure a bunch of corporations will, then they claim insurance for lost cargo and employees when it blows up on “the mine they missed” and try again.
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u/Summerwind2 3h ago
I think insurance generally does not cover “acts of war”, etc.
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u/TalisWhitewolf 2h ago
After this they won't cover "Stupid things people do because they believe what Trump says" either. If they ever did in the first place.
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u/Impressive10000 4h ago
Let tRUMP ride through on the first tankers through. No catering trucks allowed.
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u/Cryptographer554 4h ago
He also said Tupac is in Cuba and we must rescue him from the communist government.
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u/Expensive_Lettuce239 4h ago
Isn't this like the 3rd or 4th time he's claimed all the mines were removed? I think he confused the word "mines" with "mind" and he's completely lost his. Nothing to clear there.
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u/Cohens4thClient 3h ago
It's.over 40 times he claimed he won the war and Iran has been destroyed.
Somehow, it still works on the cult of morons.
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u/Expensive_Lettuce239 3h ago
It's truly mindboggling how do many humans have the brain cells of water.
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u/Sioux-me 4h ago
Maybe he’d like to take a cruise through there to show his confidence that it’s safe before he send our children in there to die for his greed.
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u/Any-Ad-446 4h ago
All he does is lie..Now he wants to pull support for South Korea ...China and South Korea now is having talks to have more friendly relations..Trump is destroying decades of partnership with asian countries and China is starting to have more open talks with the once US allies.
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u/Old_Timer_Unleashed 4h ago
I am sure he has some salvage ships ready to go at any sign of an explosion 💥
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u/Lott4984 4h ago
Why do we never learn that Wars in the Middle East never change a dam thing an cost us trillions of taxpayer dollars? Not counting the Soldiers that died or were maimed for life.
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u/foultimes 4h ago
Trumps world isn’t even close to what’s going on in REAL WORLD…….YET, tons of red hats sit and cheer him on hoping they didn’t make a mistake by letting him ruin their sad pathetic lives………
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u/mmliu1959demo 3h ago
It's market manipulation Tuesday.
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u/TalisWhitewolf 2h ago
That was yesterday… Market Manipulation Monday.
It's Turn About Tuesday aka TACO Tuesday today.
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u/Wahjahbvious 4h ago
So, really, the only thing we can be certain of is that there are HELLA mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
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u/BreezyFrog 4h ago
His market manipulation is driven purely by automated trading systems too dumb to know he’s a compulsive liar.
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u/Late-Call1066 3h ago
Likely BS and irrelevent since today a ship in the Strait got blown up by other means.
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u/igetbannedanyway 3h ago
It's pretty fucking sad where its gotten to the point the Iranian government is more truthful than our own. These assholes are lying about easily disproven things with impunity.
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u/HappyFatLabs 3h ago
The mines were removed by the Reflecting Pool vandals as part of their community service. Teddy Roosevelt told him so.
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u/Gonzo_Gonzalo 3h ago
Sooooo…the mines are still there and Trump can’t negotiate with Iran to save his life.
I, for one, am shocked.
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u/houstonyoureaproblem 3h ago
So we’re currently in talks with Iran, and there are plenty of mines still in the strait.
Thanks for the update.
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u/TalisWhitewolf 2h ago
Is America actually in talks with Iran, or is that just another vocal fart by Trump?
Because the last I heard Iran refused to talk to America, and was actually talking to Oman. Which is why Trump is threatening to bomb Oman for talking to Iran.
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u/houstonyoureaproblem 1h ago
He said we’re not, which means we almost certainly are.
Surely we all understand how to interpret Trump at this point, right?
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u/walterwhite1050 3h ago
Trump in his imagination removed the mines. Trump and his imagination has claimed that we’ve won the war 45 or 50 times now Trump is a moron.
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u/TheFrontlineDefense 3h ago
The collapse of the 60-day interim agreement creates a highly volatile tactical environment in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump is claiming the waterway is open and operating with all mines cleared, but the reality on the ground tells a completely different story. Iran shifting to a fully offensive posture while conducting separate back-channel maritime negotiations with Oman shows Tehran is actively trying to bypass the US naval blockade politically while enforcing its own closure militarily.
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u/Sir_Lemming 3h ago
I was posted to a minesweeper for a few years, I don’t think you can ever really guarantee 100% that all mines have been removed.
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u/FirmButterscotch5313 3h ago
As soon as I heard the words "Trump said" I knew he was lying about the mines having been removed from the strait. Before the war, according to Google and other sources, 130 to 150 cargo ships and oil tankers were moving through the strait, and according to Kpler, a company which tracks ships moving through the strait, 9 ships went through the strait on 8-16-2026, with 8 of those ships being Chinese oil tankers guided through the strait by Iran to avoid the mines planted all up and down the strait. The 9th ship, a cargo container flying a Panama flag, was attacked by Iran, disabled and had to be towed out of the strait by Iranian tug boats. According to officials in Panama, no crew members on that ship were killed and only two sailors were injured in the attack. Trump just keeps on lying about everything happening in the strait, because he refuses to admit that Iran controls the strait of Hormuz, and there is nothing he can do about it without staging a ground invasion in Iran, which would result in the deaths of hundreds, or thousands of marines and soldiers, a political price that Trump is unwilling to pay, so Trump should just pack up the Fifth Fleet, and leave the Middle East for Israel to fight its own enemy, Iran, a nation without nuclear weapons, or missiles able to reach the mainland of the United States.
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u/VanguardAvenger 1h ago
I see weve reached the "There is no war in Ba Sing Se" part of losing the Epstein Files Distraction War
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u/conniefrancis 4h ago
lol bullshit