{"id":73030,"date":"2026-05-04T08:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/first-thing-trump-says-us-navy-will-guide-trapped-ships-through-strait-of-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:55:24","slug":"first-thing-trump-says-us-navy-will-guide-trapped-ships-through-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/first-thing-trump-says-us-navy-will-guide-trapped-ships-through-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Trump says US navy will \u2018guide\u2019 trapped ships through strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president\u2019s post follows flurry of mixed signals including concern Tehran had not \u2018paid big enough price\u2019. Plus, could Santa Marta climate talks mark ground zero in push to ditch fossil fuels?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\"><strong>Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has announced this morning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/03\/trump-says-iran-has-not-yet-paid-a-big-enough-price-as-he-reviews-new-peace-proposal\">that the US will \u201cguide\u201d ships trapped in the Gulf by the Iran war<\/a> through the strait of Hormuz, and claimed his representatives were having \u201cvery positive\u201d discussions with Iran.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has Iran said?<\/strong> The head of the Iranian military\u2019s unified command has said US and foreign armed forces will be attacked if they enter the strait. It told US forces to stay out of the area and said its forces would respond harshly to any threat. It also told commercial ships and oil tankers to refrain from any movement in the absence of coordination with Iran\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did Comey say about the post?<\/strong> Comey deleted the post and apologized. He said the hadn\u2019t known what the expression meant and condemned violence. He has said he is innocent and denies any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/04\/first-thing-trump-says-us-navy-will-guide-trapped-ships-through-strait-of-hormuz\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president\u2019s post follows flurry of mixed signals including concern Tehran had not \u2018paid big enough price\u2019. Plus, could Santa Marta climate talks mark ground zero in push to ditch fossil fuels? Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Donald Trump has announced this morning that the US will &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: Trump says US navy will \u2018guide\u2019 trapped ships through strait of Hormuz\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/first-thing-trump-says-us-navy-will-guide-trapped-ships-through-strait-of-hormuz\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: Trump says US navy will \u2018guide\u2019 trapped ships through strait of Hormuz\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}