Tag: Strait of Hormuz

Trump Now Lying About “Record” Amount of Oil Passing Through Strait

The FDA program is designed to prioritize access to experimental drugs for patients with grave or life-threatening medical issues. And while the name of the individual is not known, several signs indicate that they are likely very well connected. A senior clinician at the National Institutes of Health, Ranganath Muniyappa, requested access to the drug […]

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World Leaders Say Peace Negotiations Are Going Well, So Why Is Trump Still Threatening Iran?

Source: NurPhoto / Getty At this point, it feels like all world leaders involved in negotiations regarding the war in Iran, especially those of the United States government, are treating the war like it’s some TV drama we’re all binging, and every update is actually a cliffhanger to keep us in suspense before the next […]

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The National Average Gas Price Is Finally Dipping Below $4

Source: Brandon Bell / Getty After months of egregiously high gas prices, there is finally some hope on the horizon. On Thursday, gas prices fell slightly below $4 nationwide. When I say slightly, I mean it in the fullest extent of the word, as the New York Times reports that the average price per gallon […]

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Vance Reveals Trump Lied About Strait of Hormuz Solution in Iran Deal

“But there is a crisis with those stockpiles right now?” pressed Brennan. “There is a crisis with those stockpiles right now in private industry. You have testified to it in front of Congress.” “No there’s not,” Hegseth replied. “That is a manufactured story that the media wants to peddle. And ultimately, we are, our stockpiles […]

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America’s Biggest Energy Hub Is About to Run Out of Oil

Rome Hartman, who worked as a producer on the show for 25 years, lamented the figurative arson of his “professional home,” and speculated that the show would only continue to decay under Weiss’s and Bilton’s direction. “Scott wasn’t shouting at him or physically intimidating the guy—he was doing exactly what he should’ve done in the […]

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Trump Gives Us All Whiplash With Latest Iran Announcement

“Discussions and final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved, including the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and others,” Trump wrote. “The Naval Blockade will remain in full force and effect until this Transaction is finalized—Time and place of the […]

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Trump Wants To ‘Take Kharg Island’ As US Continues Strikes Against Iran

Source: Anadolu / Getty Remember three months ago when President Donald Trump said the conflict in Iran was only going to take two to four weeks? It’s become incredibly apparent that Trump’s optimism was misplaced.  While Iran and the U.S. have ostensibly been under a ceasefire since April, the two countries have yet to reach […]

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Trump Energy Secretary Admits He Straight Up Lied About Iran

“You know we’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil. Nobody knows it. You know who doesn’t know about it? Iran until right now,” Trump said. “We took out, the other night, 22 ships, late at night with no lights because they don’t have any radar because we blasted the crap out of it.” […]

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Trump Blabs to Everyone About Supposed Secret Mission for Iran’s Oil

“You know we’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil. Nobody knows it. You know who doesn’t know about it? Iran until right now,” Trump said. “We took out, the other night, 22 ships, late at night with no lights because they don’t have any radar because we blasted the crap out of it.” […]

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Trump Makes Bizarre Claim About Taking Iran’s Oil

“You know we’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil. Nobody knows it. You know who doesn’t know about it? Iran until right now,” Trump said. “We took out, the other night, 22 ships, late at night with no lights because they don’t have any radar because we blasted the crap out of it.” […]

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“That’s the Way Life Goes”: Trump Brushes Off Skyrocketing Costs

It’s not clear just how expensive the tickets are for the upcoming game Monday. ABC News reported that the cheapest tickets for the playoffs were just under $1,000, while courtside seats went for $42,000, and that tickets on the secondary market for the first game in New York hovered around $4,000. Ticketmaster’s website simply said: […]

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Peace Negotiations With Iran Stall Out Amid Renewed Strikes 

Source: AMIRHOSSEIN KHORGOOEI / Getty SEO: Iran, Strait of Hormuz, Oil Prices  We are now three months into what was originally pitched as a two-to-four-week conflict with Iran. While the Trump administration signaled it was close to reaching a deal with Iran last week, that has all gone out the window as Iran and the […]

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U.S. Military Is Quietly Guiding Ships Through the Strait of Hormuz

American forces in recent weeks have helped coordinate the passage of dozens of commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. officials, even as travel through the waterway remains risky amid stalled negotiations to end the war with Iran. U.S. Central Command has guided around 70 commercial ships through the strait, traveling into […]

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Trump Hits the Stalemate Phase of His Interventions in Gaza, Ukraine and Now Iran

President Trump likes his military and diplomatic victories quick, clean and decisive. On his desk in the Oval Office, he keeps models of the B-2 bombers that took out three Iranian nuclear sites in one night, not quite a year ago. In the opening weeks of the Iran conflict this year, he talked often about […]

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What on Earth Is Going on With Trump’s Iran Deal and Naval Blockade?

“A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across,” Cornyn wrote. “The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The […]

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Trump Treasury Secretary Doubles Down on Wild Threat to Oman

Donald Trump ordered U.S. forces to invade Venezuela in early January, sending hundreds of troops through its capital city, Caracas, to capture the country’s 13-year ruler, Nicolás Maduro. Maduro and his wife were transported to New York to face federal narcotics charges, to which they both have pleaded not guilty. Trump failed to notify Congress […]

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Scott Bessent Doubles Down on Trump’s Wild Threat to Oman

Donald Trump ordered U.S. forces to invade Venezuela in early January, sending hundreds of troops through its capital city, Caracas, to capture the country’s 13-year ruler, Nicolás Maduro. Maduro and his wife were transported to New York to face federal narcotics charges, to which they both have pleaded not guilty. Trump failed to notify Congress […]

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Renewed Strikes Between US And Iran Cause (Another) Spike In Oil Prices 

Source: Thanaphum Tachakanjanapong / Getty President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is now several months behind the two-to-four week timeline he initially gave at the start of the war. A ceasefire was declared in April, but it’s looking increasingly fragile as both the U.S. and Iran are accusing the other of violating the ceasefire after […]

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Trump Summons Entire Cabinet as Iran Deal Crumbles in Front of Him

In another post, Trump said that his deal would be “the exact opposite” of the Iran deal brokered by former President Barack Obama, although he added that “nobody has seen it, or knows what it is.” Trump also noted that any potential deal to end the Iran war should come with a stipulation requiring Tehran […]

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Iran War Update: Peace Talks Are Supposedly Happening While US Launches Missiles During ‘Ceasefire’

Source: NurPhoto / Getty As the U.S./Israeli war on Iran rages on, new updates reveal that, as far as information that is available to the public goes, not a whole lot has changed over the last few months, which is to say that President Donald Trump is still claiming a deal is being made while […]

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Trump Sure Picked the Worst Time Imaginable to Bomb Iran

In another post, Trump said that his deal would be “the exact opposite” of the Iran deal brokered by former President Barack Obama, although he added that “nobody has seen it, or knows what it is.” Trump also noted that any potential deal to end the Iran war should come with a stipulation requiring Tehran […]

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Trump Picks Worst Time Imaginable to Bomb Iran

In another post, Trump said that his deal would be “the exact opposite” of the Iran deal brokered by former President Barack Obama, although he added that “nobody has seen it, or knows what it is.” Trump also noted that any potential deal to end the Iran war should come with a stipulation requiring Tehran […]

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Trump Greenland Envoy Gives Away Game on Renewed Push to Claim Island

In the few short days since its launch, the initiative has received significant blowback from the public, which is tasked with paying for the unprecedented cash stash. But mounting opposition from House and Senate Republicans forced Trump Friday to attempt to shore up legislative support. In a post on Truth Social, Trump put his foot […]

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Gas Prices Over $4 In All 50 States. Trump Says It’s ‘Peanuts’

Source: UCG / Getty As we near the third month of a war with Iran that President Donald Trump said would only last for a few weeks, the economic consequences continue to be felt by the American public. For the first time in four years, gas prices in all 50 states have topped $4 a […]

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MAGA Voter Demolishes Trump’s Major Iran Claim on Live TV

On Monday, DHS cited a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order preventing anyone from traveling to the U.S. from areas affected by the outbreak. Zapata’s lawyers say that she was deported to Congo well before the outbreak was announced, and she’s staying in the capital, Kinshasa, which hasn’t had any cases. On Tuesday, her […]

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Trump Suggests He Was on the Brink of Breaking Iran Ceasefire

However, Trump added that while he has instructed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine, and other military leaders to hold off, he wrote that he has “further instructed them to be prepared to go forward with a full, large scale assault of Iran, on a moment’s […]

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Fox News Wants the Iran War Ceasefire to End

On Truth Social, Trump barely mentioned the festival, posting a note at 8:30 a.m. Sunday: “I HOPE EVERYBODY AT REDEDICATE 250 IS HAVING A GOOD TIME. IF THERE IS ANYTHING I CAN DO TO HELP, JUST HAVE OUR BEAUTIFUL, BOTH INSIDE AND OUT, RACHAEL C.D., GIVE ME A CALL. I’M BACK FROM CHINA!!! President DJT.” […]

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How Do We Know the China Summit Was a Failure? Because Trump Did It.

I should add a few words about the graceful entrance to Arlington Cemetery. The National Park Service, which owns the land, calls this the Memorial Avenue Corridor. It was designed in the early twentieth century by none other than America’s most famous architectural firm, McKim, Mead, and White, under project architect William Mitchell Kendall, who […]

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Watch Sean Hannity Get Pissed at Trump Over Iran Talks in China

“Thus, allowing President Trump to conduct discovery on actual malice, where his initial attempt at pleading a defamation claim fell short, is exactly the type of ‘expensive yet groundless litigation’ the Eleventh Circuit has cautioned against,” Gayles wrote in his ruling. Trump sued the Journal in July 2025, claiming that the newspaper’s reporting that Trump […]

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Lindsey Graham Is Already Begging Trump to Derail China Talks

“Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said. The senator’s son then went on a rant against Jewish people, calling them anti-American and claiming Lawler and his “Jewish supporters” served Israel over America. Lawler argued with Paul and defended his support of Israel, telling him that he was antisemitic. Paul then […]

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