Trump, 80, Hijacks Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Wedding News 76%

By Mary Papenfuss0%

7/4/2026, 1:51:17 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Unattributed Quote, and Availability Heuristic, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 59.5% saturation with 251 hits. Analysis detected 1,216 faulty-reasoning hits from 422 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67.4% and a BS Rank of 76% (5,395 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 75.40% of the article peer group.

Donald Trump seemed to be getting slightly antsy on Friday night, amid the way too much attention being paid to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s massive wedding bash in Manhattan. 
So the White House took decisive action. 
Just 10 minutes after several digital pink signs lit up outside Madison Square Garden to declare Swift and Kelce as “JUST&T MARRIED‚” the White House took a moment to co-opt the newlyweds’ announcement. 
At 8:04 p.m., the official White House account on X shared a post in which they boldly replaced the couple’s happy announcement with an altered AI declaration: “DONALD TRUMP IS YOUR PRESIDENT.” 
The post was captioned: “IT’S HAPPENED!!,” which most of the public is acutely aware of. 
That’s all Trump critics needed. 
One quickly responded by altering the same scene with a different announcement: “Trump is in the Epstein files!” 
(“Why would MSG do this??” 
quipped the poster.) 
Another doctored image pointed out: “Trump is a felon,” and still another noted: “Trump raised your prices!” 
Trump already tried to horn in on the Taylor/Travis action on Thursday when a White House post, in a particularly cringey effort, tried to make the president appear like a rock star in a long-awaited “Eras Tour.” 
To elevate himself even higher, Trump headed Friday to Mount Rushmore, where he has long talked about wanting to see a giant stone carving of his own face joining those of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. 
He recently posted an image of himself atop Mount Rushmore on Truth Social. 
During his first term, Trump told then-Rep. 
Kristi Noem of South Dakota that his “dream” was to join the other presidents atop Mount Rushmore. 
Some supporters and MAGA suck-ups have introduced legislation to make that happen, though those efforts have reportedly stalled. 
Trump traveled to the monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota on Friday evening, where his planned speech was temporarily delayed by a hailstorm. 
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said Trump’s remarks at the monument, which he buzzed with the new Air Force One gifted to him by Qatar, would be “inspiring” and “optimistic.” 
In the 30-minute speech, Trump touched on a number of topics, including the current state of his deal with Iran. 
“They’re dying to settle,” the president said. 
“They want to settle so badly.” 
He also bashed the “communist menace” in the U.S., which he has used to attack Democrats, and lamented his lack of Nobel Prize—despite ending “eight wars.” 
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422 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers14%attributed speech362writer words
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Selected voice

Karoline Leavitt

100%flagged-word coverage
30 attributed words50% of attributed speech82% writer coverage
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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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