Trump says US Navy acting 'like pirates' to carry out naval blockade of Iranian ports

[highplainsdem]

Source: Reuters

President Donald Trump said on Friday the U.S. Navy was acting "like pirates" in carrying out Washington's naval blockade ​of Iranian ports during the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran.

Trump ‌made the comments while describing the seizure by U.S. forces of a ship a few days ago.

"We took over the ship, we took over ​the cargo, we took over the oil. It's a very ​profitable business," Trump said in remarks on Friday evening. "We're ⁠like pirates. We're sort of like pirates but we are not ​playing games."

Some of Tehran's vessels have been seized by the U.S. after leaving ​Iranian ports, along with sanctioned container ships and Iranian tankers in Asian waters.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-us-navy-acting-like-pirates-carry-out-naval-blockade-iranian-ports-2026-05-02/

[Lovie777]

1. WTF.....

[ananda]

12. Captain Blood

...

[Justice matters.]

29. Gangster

Has been said in the UK government with love, love, love.

[wcmagumba]

2. Does that make Trump "The Pirate King"?

[Jerry2144]

16. Pervert King maybe

[sheshe2]

18. He is the pirate of 'Dependsance.'

[Prairie Gates]

3. Trump's fetish is admitting the crime and getting away with it

He's never more angry than when he is forced to deny wrongdoing, and never happier (more turned on) than when he gets to admit it with no consequence.

[Walleye]

26. Absolutely if he's not doing it in our faces, he's not enjoying it

[purr-rat beauty]

4. Then...no more Federal tax dollars

I'm not funding crime sprees

Oh wait....already am

[Walleye]

27. But God forbid any dollars from the federal government should be used to help a woman with a problem pregnancy

Because that’s a crime, but pirating ships on the high seas is not.

[RockRaven]

5. Seems like some foreign court could use that statement as evidence (not that it would accomplish anything meaningful).

[Deuxcents]

6. Will we be getting a meme showing him as Jack Sparrow next?

[marble falls]

8. Smee is his pirate name.

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[wcmagumba]

9. Thanks for that...I was in a college production of "Peter Pan"...Peter Pan flew from wires and the croc was on wheels

with an actor inside pulling it across the stage...I was a minor pirate named "Noodler"...Wendy, Michael and John all flew across the stage along with Peter...it was fun but a complicated setup for a small college to pull off...

[marble falls]

13. Flying is simple looking complicated process. It had to be fun.

[wcmagumba]

19. Yep, they had two story platforms on one side with ropes connected to the wires on each flying actor...

one rope for up and down and one for side to side (I'm not completely sure how it worked but it did).

[marble falls]

23. It had to be fun and serious work all at the same time. ...

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/699/fiasco


This is one of my favorite episodes.

[marble falls]

7. Arrrrrr. Pretty accurate description.

[orangecrush]

10. Quiet Piggy

[rampartd]

11. "not playing games?"

at some point his game of peter pan turns onto "piracy on the high seas."

piracy is a capital offense.

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. It may be a capital offence in some country, but not the USA

Whoever, on the high seas, commits the crime of piracy as defined by the law of nations, and is afterwards brought into or found in the United States, shall be imprisoned for life.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1651

[AverageOldGuy]

14. Trump lives in a world . . .

. . . of John Wayne movies, of Sergeant Rock comic books, of Ronald Regan movies.

The man has the mental maturity of a 12-yr-old (I apologize to all 12-yr-olds) whose intellectual development stopped in 1959.

[Skittles]

15. as usual, he sounds like a FUCKING IDIOT

because he IS a FUCKING IDIOT

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

17. If the U.S. Navy doesn't vehemently speak out against that comparison, then the Navy should abandon ship.

[stage left]

21. And all the admirals

Should walk the plank.

[Figarosmom]

20. So he's made criminals of our sailors, now?

What he just admitted is illegal as hell.

[JoseBalow]

22. Oh, rip the shirt, how cliche

I suppose you'll have me walk the plank next or something...

[sinkingfeeling]

24. The ongoing blockade and raiding ships are acts of war. So much for their claim

that the ceasefire stopped the clock. They must cease unless Congress declares war.

[GreenWave]

28. He should be made to eat Pie rats as he is the commander in thief.