{"id":60797,"date":"2026-04-20T08:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=60797"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:54:59","slug":"hes-back-to-american-piracy-donald-blackbeard-trump-terrorizing-the-open-seas-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=60797","title":{"rendered":"<h2>HE&#8217;S BACK TO AMERICAN PIRACY! <b>Donald &#8220;Blackbeard&#8221; Trump terrorizing the open seas again<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60798\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-8.53.37-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-8.53.37-AM.png 610w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-8.53.37-AM-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Trump renews threats if no deal is reached:\u00a0<strong>&#8220;No More Mr. Nice Guy&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Trump says\u00a0<strong>U.S. struck and seized Iranian-flagged cargo ship<\/strong>\u00a0in Gulf of Oman<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Tanker\u00a0<strong>traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a halt<\/strong>\u00a0after multiple incidents (Iran\u00a0<strong>renewed threats to close the Bab al-Mandeb Strait)<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Vance to lead negotiations<\/strong>\u00a0with Iran, along with Witkoff and Kushner, on\u00a0<strong>Tuesday or Wednesday<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>&#8220;We are still far from the final discussion,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0said speaker of the Iranian parliament Ghalibaf<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>US Struck and Seized Iranian-flagged Cargo Ship on Gulf Of Oman<\/h2>\n<p>With markets still closed for now, President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116433000897070863\">Trump just posted on his Truth Social platform<\/a>\u00a0that the US military just struck and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/no-more-mr-nice-guy-trump-sends-witkoff-pakistan-us-iran-talks-hormuz-traffic-freezes\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/no-more-mr-nice-guy-trump-sends-witkoff-pakistan-us-iran-talks-hormuz-traffic-freezes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60799,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60797\/revisions\/60799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}