We can knock them out… But to close the Strait, all you need is one terrorist that somehow has a truck loaded with…a water mine, drop them in the water, and now you tell people that own ships that cost a billion dollars… ‘Don’t worry about the mine.’ You can do that even just by saying we put mines in the water so it’s not like the rest,” Trump said. Trump touted that the United States had “knocked out” Iran’s navy, air force, and mine droppers, but noted the regime could use other boats to lay mines, though he questioned if Iran has any mines left to put in the Strait, adding those in the regime are “very good bullshit artists.” “In fact, the biggest problem we have in our negotiation is that they can’t communicate… We’re communicating like they used to communicate 2000 years ago, with children bringing a note back and forth,” Trump told reporters.
Author: Nick Gilbertson
Published at: 2026-04-06 21:36:04
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