Trump claims U.S. destroyed nine Iranian oil tankers and warns of more Hormuz attacks
President Donald Trump said that the United States conducted attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and warned that many more would follow. A separate same-day report quoting Trump said that U.S. strikes had destroyed nine Iranian oil tankers and that he expected “a lot more” action; the supplied material does not independently verify the tanker count or the underlying claims.
Two same-day reports quote President Donald Trump saying that the United States conducted attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and that substantially more action was expected; one report attributes to him a claim that U.S. strikes destroyed nine Iranian oil tankers. This is a new, forward-looking military escalation at a strategic energy chokepoint with plausible effects on tanker routing, war-risk insurance, crude and petrochemical feedstock availability, and regional security. The tanker count and underlying attacks are not independently verified in the supplied material, so the description attributes the claims and confidence is moderated. The occurrence time is estimated from the 18:47 UTC timestamp of the closest direct quote rather than treated as the publication time itself. The prior event matches are retained because this is a later statement continuing both the broader Hormuz crisis and the U.S.-Iran tanker-strike storyline, not a duplicate or standalone development. Stakeholder approvals are limited to companies with clear shipping, refining, insurance, or feedstock-exposure channels.
Trump: The attacks are made by us. You are gonna see a lot more.
TRUMP: US HAS DESTROYED 9 IRANIAN OIL TANKERS IN HORMUZ STRIKES, EXPECTS “A LOT MORE” ACTION; SAYS THE WAR COULD END AFTER THE ELECTION, WHILE LEAVING OPEN THE POSSIBILITY OF NEGOTIATIONS AND A BROADER DEAL BEYOND NUCLEAR ISSUES.