Trump reveals jaw-dropping bravery of Apache pilots after Iranian drone ‘lodged’ in helicopter: ‘A miracle’ 79%

By Chris Nesi71%

6/10/2026, 12:16:38 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Biased Writer Voice, and Framing Effect, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 55.6% saturation with 104 hits. Analysis detected 681 faulty-reasoning hits from 187 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 70.6% and a BS Rank of 79% (4,643 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 78.80% of the article peer group.

President Trump shared new details about the heroic actions of the US Army Apache helicopter pilots whose quick thinking helped them narrowly escape a fiery death at the hands of a deadly Iranian attack drone. 
Speaking to Fox News Wednesday, the president said a drone laden with explosives had “lodged between” the pilots inside the helicopter as it was flying low over enemy territory  fully engulfed in flames, but failing to explode as intended. 
“At any moment it could have exploded,” Trey Yingst told the network after speaking with Trump, who called the harrowing incident “a miracle.” 
“And so we’re trying to take down the helicopter with the drone lodged into this gunship without it exploding. 
There was a lot of heat inside the cockpit of this helicopter, and ultimately these two pilots were able to take it down into the sea,” he said, quoting the president. 
After the pilots brought down the $40 million craft, they were rescued by an unmanned sea drone  a first in US military history. 
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187 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers44%attributed speech105writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 15 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 35 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 40 words • 100.0% coverageTrey Yingst • 23 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 19 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 31 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Trey Yingst

100%flagged-word coverage
23 attributed words28% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection+85.7 ptsWriter: 14.3%Trey Yingst: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-77.1 ptsWriter: 77.1%Trey Yingst: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-22.9 ptsWriter: 22.9%Trey Yingst: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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