{"id":696831,"date":"2026-05-02T22:10:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=696831"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:11:59","slug":"trump-on-hormuz-blockade-were-like-pirates-and-its-very-profitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=696831","title":{"rendered":"Trump On Hormuz Blockade: &#8220;We&#8217;re Like Pirates &#8211; And It&#8217;s Very Profitable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has newly said<em><strong> the US Navy is acting &#8220;like pirates&#8221;<\/strong> <\/em>as he described an operation about seizing a ship amid the ongoing blockade of Iranian ports.\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;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,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> Trump told a large audience at a rally in Florida on Friday. <em><strong>&#8220;We\u2019re like pirates,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> he added as the crow cheered him on. <em><strong>&#8220;We\u2019re sort of like pirates. But we\u2019re not playing games.&#8221;<\/strong> <\/em>Watch the US President also declare <em><strong>&#8220;it&#8217;s a very profitable business&#8221;:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/trump-hormuz-blockade-were-pirates-and-its-very-profitable\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/trump-hormuz-blockade-were-pirates-and-its-very-profitable<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You would think by now that NOTHING DJT SAYS would be shocking &#8212; but the callousness of this specific commentary is overwhelming.\u00a0 It is also easily applied to all the gold that has been confiscated by the US over the years from ME countries as well as oil from Syria, Venezuela etc etc etc. There really are some things that should NEVER be said out loud (even if your joking &#8211; which I don&#8217;t think DJT is here) and offer only downside by making them!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has newly said the US Navy is acting &#8220;like pirates&#8221; as he described an operation about seizing a ship amid the ongoing blockade of Iranian ports.\u00a0&#8220;We \u2026 land on top of it and we took over the ship. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=696831\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696833,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696831\/revisions\/696833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}