He heard Iran was charging for passage and wanted in?

Also personally I’m highly suspect of the laundry fire on the Ford Aircraft carrier that caused it to go to split for repairs with no timeline for completion yet.

So much for the 5 day pause because negotiating was going well.

You thought gas was getting expensive in the Midwest before this could hurt if the plant is down for a while. Last I checked it processes roughly 360,000 to 435,000 barrels per day. It specializes in refining heavy sour crude oils into transport fuels like gasoline and jet fuel.

Iran already said they never spoke and the straight will remain closed, but yes agreed he’s trying to manipulate the market to calm it since gas has skyrocketed. It’s literally the only thing that’s kept his inflation numbers looking low.