Trump warns US will hit Houthis in Yemen after they fire at two Saudi ships 80%

By Ryan King76%

7/23/2026, 5:42:06 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Framing Effect, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 65.5% saturation with 97 hits. Analysis detected 864 faulty-reasoning hits from 148 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 70.9% and a BS Rank of 80% (4,554 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 79.20% of the article peer group.

President Trump vowed Thursday to hold Iran accountable for any attacks by Yemen’s Houthis on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. 
The president’s warning comes in response to the Houthis striking two Saudi Arabian vessels Wednesday evening, raising fears that the group could attempt to shut down the Bab El Mandeb Strait, a key oil chokepoint. 
“Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if they do this again, the U.S. will hold Iran accountable, in that the Houthis are a Surrogate and/or Proxy of Iran, and major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis, themselves, who I am very disappointed with,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. 
Trump added that the Houthis “have, until now, acted very professionally and smart” during Operation Epic Fury, which began Feb. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 52.0%Ryan King: 4.9%California Post: 4.1%Confirmation Bias52.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 1.5%California Post: 1.4%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 23.6%Ryan King: 3.0%California Post: 4.2%Availability Heuristic23.6%This article: 23.6%Ryan King: 1.4%California Post: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic23.6%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.5%California Post: 0.8%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 7.6%California Post: 2.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 52.0%Ryan King: 8.0%California Post: 10.3%Framing Effect52.0%This article: 37.8%Ryan King: 1.0%California Post: 0.9%Loss Aversion37.8%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.1%California Post: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.1%California Post: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 13.5%Ryan King: 3.4%California Post: 2.5%Optimism Bias13.5%This article: 23.6%Ryan King: 2.3%California Post: 1.5%Pessimism Bias23.6%This article: 65.5%Ryan King: 14.7%California Post: 16.0%Negativity Bias65.5%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 2.6%California Post: 2.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 2.7%California Post: 1.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.3%California Post: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 1.1%California Post: 1.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 1.9%California Post: 1.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 1.1%California Post: 3.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.2%California Post: 0.6%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.0%California Post: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 13.5%Ryan King: 1.8%California Post: 1.6%Recency Bias13.5%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.7%California Post: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.0%California Post: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 3.3%California Post: 2.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.0%California Post: 0.5%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 2.0%California Post: 4.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 14.2%Ryan King: 3.3%California Post: 1.5%False Dilemma14.2%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.8%California Post: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.0%California Post: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 23.6%Ryan King: 4.7%California Post: 5.5%Hasty Generalization23.6%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.2%California Post: 0.7%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.1%California Post: 1.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 14.6%California Post: 8.9%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 1.6%California Post: 1.1%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 2.9%California Post: 2.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.6%California Post: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.7%California Post: 0.8%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.1%California Post: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.2%California Post: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 37.8%Ryan King: 1.8%California Post: 3.6%Anecdotal37.8%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.0%California Post: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 51.4%Ryan King: 2.7%California Post: 2.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)51.4%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.0%California Post: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.1%California Post: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.0%California Post: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 37.8%Ryan King: 0.4%California Post: 0.2%Special Pleading37.8%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.0%California Post: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 37.8%Ryan King: 2.4%California Post: 3.2%Unattributed Quote37.8%This article: 37.8%Ryan King: 4.3%California Post: 2.1%Quote-first Misdirection37.8%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 7.8%California Post: 13.1%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 37.8%Ryan King: 1.6%California Post: 1.4%Indoctrination37.8%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 1.6%California Post: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 1.6%California Post: 3.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan King: 0.3%California Post: 6.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

148 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker51%attributed speech72writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 35 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 56 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Donald Trump

100%flagged-word coverage
76 attributed words100% of attributed speech78% writer coverage
0%37.5%75.0%Unattributed Quote+73.7 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 73.7%73.7%Quote-first Misdirection+73.7 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 73.7%73.7%Indoctrination+73.7 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 73.7%73.7%

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

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Analysis

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