Trump says US Navy acting like ‘pirates’ during Iran blockade

The Guardian · May 2, 2026 War

At a rally in Florida, the US president tells a cheering crowd ‘we took over the ship’ Middle East crisis – live updates Donald Trump has said the US Navy acted “like pirates” as he described an operation seizing a ship amid the tit-for-tat American blockade of Iranian ports. “We … land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil.

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