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Trump Gets Big Laugh Roasting RFK Jr. At WHCD: ‘Very Special Beef’ ⁠56%

By Kathianne Boniello⁠82%

7/25/2026, 6:04:03 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Framing Effect, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 25.6% saturation with 90 hits. Analysis detected 510 faulty-reasoning hits from 351 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 53.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠56% (9,758 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 55.40% of the article peer group.

President Donald Trump did get some laughs at Friday’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner with a jab at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. 
Kennedy Jr. , who has blazed his own trail of bizarre animal moments over the years. 
RFK Jr. — who has made headlines for cutting the penis out of a roadkill raccoon ; staging a gruesome scene in Central Park in 2014 involving a dead bear cub ; and even more recently, trying to wrangle a pair of snakes — appeared to take the roasting in stride. 
Trump opened the gag by suggesting the name of the annual dinner be changed to the “Trump White House Correspondents’ Dinner.” 
Then he mentioned the meal at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington D.C. and gave a nod to Kennedy’s actress wife, Cheryl Hines : 
I hope that everyone finally got to enjoy their entire very delicious beef tenderloin. 
Very special beef. 
And I want you all to know that Bobby Kennedy is right here. 
Personally ran over the cow in his car and he cut it up and he brought it here for you to eat tonight. 
So it’s very fresh. 
And Bobby also suggested an appetizer featuring his favorite cut of male raccoon roadkill . 
But we drew the line at that Cheryl we said, no, we’re not going to do that. 
We’re not doing that. 
We love Bobby. 
I’ll tell you, he’s a piece of work. 
You think it’s it is fun, but he is a very different kind of a person. 
I will tell you. 
But he has what it takes and he loves the country. 
It was the president’s first full appearance at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner , which is intended to be a celebration of the First Amendment and was rescheduled after accused gunman Cole Tomas Allen opened fire at the original event earlier this year . 
Watch above via CNN. 
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At WHCD: ‘Very Special Beef’ first appeared on Mediaite . 
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351 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker51%attributed speech172writer words
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Selected voice

Trump

77%flagged-word coverage
179 attributed words100% of attributed speech92% writer coverage
0%20.0%40.0%Biased Writer Voice-26.1 ptsWriter: 39.0%Trump: 12.8%12.8%Indoctrination+11.7 ptsWriter: 0.0%Trump: 11.7%11.7%

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

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Analysis

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