Trump's fixation on White House ballroom is increasing, Post analysis finds ⁠47%

By Clara Ence Morse⁠0% Dan Diamond⁠0%

4/19/2026, 2:00:45 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias and Biased Writer Voice, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 40.2% saturation with 39 hits. Analysis detected 117 faulty-reasoning hits from 97 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 48.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠47% (11,782 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 53.80% of the article peer group.

President Donald Trump had just begun a Jan. 9 meeting at the White House with oil and gas executives when he paused, stood and walked to a window to admire his construction project. 
“This is the door to the ballroom,” the president said, gesturing at the future entrance to the planned $400 million addition to the White House. 
Trump touted the project for about 90 seconds, extolling the ballroom's features, before resuming a discussion of how to rebuild Venezuela's oil industry and lower global energy prices. 
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97 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker26%attributed speech72writer words
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Writer's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 33 words • 0.0% coveragePresident Donald Trump • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 100.0% coverage
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25 attributed words100% of attributed speech54% writer coverage
0%27.5%55.0%Biased Writer Voice-54.2 ptsWriter: 54.2%President Donald Trump: 0.0%0.0%

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

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