President Donald Trump announced Sunday the U.S. Navy will begin blockading ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the news coming after he said Iran promised to open the strait but ultimately did not.
“So, there you have it, the meeting went well, most points were agreed to, but the only point that really mattered, NUCLEAR, was not. Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social early Sunday.
He continued:
At some point, we will reach an “ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT” basis, but Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying, “There may be a mine out there somewhere,” that nobody knows about but them. THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION, and Leaders of Countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted. 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. Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL! Iran knows, better than anyone, how to END this situation which has already devastated their Country. Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft and Radar are useless, Khomeini, and most of their “Leaders,” are dead, all because of their Nuclear ambition. The Blockade will begin shortly. Other Countries will be involved with this Blockade. Iran will not be allowed to profit off this Illegal Act of EXTORTION. They want money and, more importantly, they want Nuclear. Additionally and, at an appropriate moment, we are fully “LOCKED AND LOADED,” and our Military will finish up the little that is left of Iran! President DONALD J. TRUMP
On Saturday, Vice President JD Vance said the U.S. delegation decided to leave peace talks with Iran in Pakistan once it was clear after 21 hours the Islamist regime would not agree to the terms the United States put forward, Breitbart News reported.
“We have had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians, that’s the good news. The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement, and I think that’s bad news for Iran, much more than it is for the United States of America. So we go back to the United States of America without an agreement,” Vance explained.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reported a pair of U.S. warships, the USS Franklin Petersen and the USS Michael Murphy, went through the strait on Saturday.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a powder keg: just 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, filled with mines and within striking distance of missiles and drones fired from a labyrinth of Iranian mountains. Any move by the US Navy to blockade or forcibly secure it would risk heavy losses,” the outlet said.
In another social media post on Sunday, Trump said, “Iran promised to open the Strait of Hormuz, and they knowingly failed to do so. This caused anxiety, dislocation, and pain to many people and Countries throughout the World. They say they put mines in the water, even though all of their Navy, and most of their ‘mine droppers,’ have been completely blown up.”
He added that, “The meeting with Iran began early in the morning, and lasted throughout the night — Close to 20 hours. I could go into great detail, and talk about much that has been gotten but, there is only one thing that matters — IRAN IS UNWILLING TO GIVE UP ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS!”
However, the president also stated “IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!”
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Iran threatens to ATTACK US warships in Strait of Hormuz as American destroyers pass through waterway for first time since conflict began
Iran has threatened to attack US Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, just after American warships passed through the strategic waterway for the first time since the war began.
Two American destroyers went through the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday for the first time in six weeks without incident, according to The Wall Street Journal.
But Tehran has since warned Pakistani mediators that if the vessel continues to move, ‘it will be targeted within 30 minutes, and the Iranian-American negotiations will suffer,’ foreign ministry spokesperson Khabar Network told Fars News Agency.
The threat of near-immediate retaliation came just after reports revealed that multiple US ships crossed the strait in a bold move that ‘was not coordinated with Iran.’
USS Frank E. Peterson (DDG 121) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) transited the Strait of Hormuz as part of a US Navy operation – not escorting commercial ships – in what was described as a freedom-of-navigation mission.
Forces under US Central Command (CENTCOM) also announced that they had begun setting conditions to clear mines in the Strait of Hormuz previously laid by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
‘Today, we began the process of establishing a new passage and we will share this safe pathway with the maritime industry soon to encourage the free flow of commerce,’ CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper said in a statement on X.
Cooper also revealed that additional US forces, including underwater drones, will join the clearance effort in the coming days.
President Donald Trump has ordered that the Strait of Hormuz be open as part of the ceasefire deal.
The Iran war has led to Iranians effectively shutting the Strait of Hormuz through which 20 percent of the world’s oil supplies are shipped. That has pushed up energy prices and given Iran a key point of leverage in negotiations with the US.
The transit comes as the US and Iran began face-to-face negotiations on Saturday in Pakistan, days after a fragile, two-week ceasefire was announced.
The White House confirmed the direct nature of the talks.
Iran’s state-run news agency said three-party talks had begun after Iranian preconditions, including a reduction in Israeli strikes on Southern Lebanon were met, and after US and Iranian officials met separately with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
When asked if he feels the Iranians are acting in good faith during these high-stakes negotiations, Trump offered a cryptic but confident timeline for when the world will find out on Saturday.
‘I’ll let you know that in a very short period of time, won’t take long,’ he said.
The US delegation is being led by Vice President JD Vance, along with Steve Witkoff, the special envoy, and Jared Kushner, who is Trump’s son-in-law.
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WaPo Thinks SCOTUS Upholding The Constitution Is A Bad Thing
The unspoken competition among legacy media outlets to see who can produce the most asinine propaganda is pretty fierce this week. On top of a debunked hatchet job involving the Pentagon and Vatican, The Washington Post decided to throw its hat in the ring with a particularly dumb hit piece of its own — this time, against the U.S. Supreme Court.
In a Thursday article titled, “Supreme Court remade by Trump ushers in historic defeats for civil rights,” Post reporter Justin Jouvenal attempted to convince readers that the court’s conservative justices have waged an all-out war on “civil rights” in “cases involving women and minorities.” Naturally, he attributed this to “President Donald Trump’s three appointees” — Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — who he said have “remade” the court to be “sharply conservative.”
“The court has also entered a new era of extreme partisanship. None over the past seven decades has been as starkly polarized,” Jouvenal wrote in melodramatic fashion.
The entire premise of the piece is based on an “analysis” by Washington University and Penn State professors, who, after reportedly examining 270 of the court’s decisions from 2020-2024 and a Supreme Court database they maintain themselves, concluded that “the share of cases won by the side advocating an expansion of civil rights fell to 44 percent” since Trump’s appointees joined the court. “In all the other time periods going back to the early 1950s,” Jouvenal wrote, “the Supreme Court issued rulings in favor of expanding civil rights in a majority of such cases.”
So, how exactly do Jouvenal and the study’s authors determine whether SCOTUS is “rejecting” or “expanding” so-called “civil rights” in any given case? Going off the decisions provided by the Post, it seems the (unsurprising) answer to that question is based on whether the court’s decision gave leftists the outcome they wanted.
As examples showcasing what he portrays as anti-“civil rights” decisions, Jouvenal cited the Supreme Court’s 2025 U.S. v. Skrmetti and Mahmoud v. Taylor rulings, which upheld a Tennessee law prohibiting harmful “trans” procedures on children and parents’ right to opt their children out of school lessons promoting LGBT ideology, respectively. He further referenced a 2023 decision (303 Creative LLC v. Elenis) shutting down LGBT activists’ attempts to force a Christian web designer to create websites for same-sex weddings.
Jouvenal introduced the rulings by writing, “In recent terms, a number of the civil rights cases before the court have involved protections for gay and transgender people, and in most cases, the court has ruled against them.”
The Post “reporter” went on to ominously warn that the high court seems “poised to go further” during its current term. He specifically noted a recently released decision in which the court ruled against Colorado’s ban on so-called “conversion therapy” for minors. Conveniently, Jouvenal declined to mention the ruling was 8-1, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joining their conservative colleagues in siding against the Democrat-run state.
But it’s not just the Supreme Court’s upholding of Americans’ free speech, parental rights, and protections for children that the Post clearly takes issue with. The outlet also tried to characterize the court’s 2023 decision (SFFA v. Harvard) ending racial discrimination against white and Asian Americans in college admissions as “par[ing] back civil rights,” and deemed its recent rulings upholding Americans’ religious freedoms as “striking.”
Jouvenal finished his diatribe seemingly lamenting the court’s production of proper jurisprudence after Republican presidents have sought to replace moderate and left-wing justices with originalist ones. In doing so, he concluded that the analysis “shows a court of ideological extremes, with increasingly dug-in factions of liberals and conservatives.”
There’s two key points to be made about this ridiculous hit piece.
For starters, any “study” that purports to classify “civil rights” in the way this one reportedly did is an absolute joke. And the same goes for any “news” outlet moronic enough to give it oxygen.
Under the Post and Co.’s “civil rights” standards, racial discrimination is OK as long as it’s against races that don’t check the left’s “victimhood” box; stifling speech is OK as long as it’s speech the left doesn’t like; and infringing on religious liberty is OK as long as it’s against faithful Christians.
And don’t forget decisions upholding laws protecting children from trans-obsessed psychos seeking to mutilate their bodies with destructive surgeries and chemicals. That’s apparently anti-“civil rights” too.
Secondly, the notion that the Supreme Court’s conservative justices and their jurisprudence are “extreme” is utterly laughable.
In many of their majority decisions, the court’s conservative justices are interpreting the Constitution and laws as they were written at the times they were written (that is, originalism). In doing so, they’re not haphazardly inventing new legal rights out of thin air the way past Supreme Courts have done (see Roe v. Wade and the made-up “right” to abortion).
In running this “analysis” and adopting the framing it did, the Post has shown it is clearly upset that Republican presidents have gotten better at picking SCOTUS nominees. Not solely originalists, but those who also recognize the proper role of a judge in the American system of government.
With leftist control of the Supreme Court out of reach for the time being, the Post and its fellow media propagandists are doing to the conservative justices what they regularly to do all their perceived political enemies: lie, smear, and lie some more. After all, that is what they do worst of all.
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