{"id":621968,"date":"2026-05-04T00:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/621968\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:41:20","slug":"trump-says-us-will-help-free-ships-stranded-in-strait-of-hormuz-the-mighty-790-kfgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/621968\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US will help free ships stranded in Strait of Hormuz | The Mighty 790 KFGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) \u2013 President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the United \u200bStates would begin an \u200ceffort to free up ships stranded in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in a post \u200con \u200bhis Truth \u2060Social site, gave \u2060few details about the operation, including whether the U.S. Navy would be involved. He described \u200bthe effort as a \u201chumanitarian gesture\u201d meant only to \u2060aid neutral countries \u2060that were not involved \u200bin the U.S.-Israeli war on \u200bIran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the good of Iran, \u200cthe Middle East, and the United States, we have told these Countries that we \u2060will guide their Ships safely out of these restricted Waterways, so that \u2060they \u200ccan freely and \u2060ably get on with \u200btheir \u200cbusiness,\u201d Trump wrote in \u200bthe post.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060White House and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for additional information.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Katharine Jackson; Editing by \u200bNia Williams)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) \u2013 President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the United \u200bStates would begin an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-621968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}