{"id":429794,"date":"2026-04-23T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/trump-says-he-orders-attack-on-any-boat-placing-mines-in-strait-of-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:00:12","slug":"trump-says-he-orders-attack-on-any-boat-placing-mines-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/trump-says-he-orders-attack-on-any-boat-placing-mines-in-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he orders attack on any boat placing mines in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Trump posts on Truth Social:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small<br \/>\nboats though they may be (Their naval ships are ALL, 159 of them, at the<br \/>\n bottom of the sea!), that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait<br \/>\nof Hormuz. There is to be no hesitation. Additionally, our mine<br \/>\n\u201csweepers\u201d are clearing the Strait right now. I am hereby ordering that<br \/>\nactivity to continue, but at a tripled up level! Thank you for your<br \/>\nattention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where that falls under the ceasefire but it&#8217;s the kind of thing you might do if you&#8217;re thinking about naval escorts rather than peace. Then again, it&#8217;s also the kind of thing you might want to accelerate if you were thinking about peace.<\/p>\n<p>Stock futures moved lower on the post.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump posts on Truth Social: I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be (Their naval ships are ALL, 159 of them, at the bottom of the sea!), that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. There is to be no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}