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Trump Is Trying to Bully Oil Tankers to Sail Through a Conflict Zone

Mar 9, 2026Left

President Donald Trump says he wants hundreds of ships to “show some guts” and sail through the war zone he created. Speaking to Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade Sunday, Trump tried to bully shipping companies into reopening the Strait of Hormuz—where global trade has come to a screeching halt amid Iran’s retaliation to U.S. and Israeli strikes. “These…

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