Trump Says US To Start Guiding Trapped Ships Through Hormuz

By María Paula Mijares Torres

May 3, 2026(Bloomberg) –President Donald Trump said the US will begin guiding some neutral ships trapped in the Persian Gulf out through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday.

“The Ship movement is merely meant to free up people, companies, and Countries that have done absolutely nothing wrong — They are victims of circumstance,” Trump wrote Sunday in a social media post. “If, in any way, this Humanitarian process is interfered with, that interference will, unfortunately, have to be dealt with forcefully.”

Trump didn’t elaborate in the post on the specific steps the US would take to help