Donald Trump Jr., the son of real estate mogul Donald Trump, blasted Washington on Thursday for agreeing to cut into sections the USS Guardian, the US minesweeper which crashed into the Tubbataha Reef in Palawan on Jan. 17. Washington also agreed to pay for damages caused by the grounding of the ship and for the cleanup costs. Trump posted a link via Twitter to a Washington Free Beacon article, which reported that the US minesweeper will have to be cut up into small pieces “to prevent the harming of the ocean’s ecosystem.”

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