Newsmax⁠75%

Trump Sees 'Good Chance' of Iran Nuke Deal After Delaying Tuesday Strike ⁠94%

By Steve Holland⁠0%

5/18/2026, 10:16:32 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Recency Bias, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 47.1% saturation with 74 hits. Analysis detected 495 faulty-reasoning hits from 157 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 89.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠94% (1,379 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 93.70% of the article peer group.

President Donald Trump said on Monday there was a “very good chance” the United States could reach an agreement with Iran to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, hours after saying he had postponed a planned military attack at Gulf allies' request to allow negotiations to continue. 
Trump said leaders from key U.S. allies in the Middle East had asked him to delay a planned military attack on Iran scheduled for Tuesday to allow negotiations with Tehran to continue. 
At the same time, he warned once more that the U.S. remains prepared to launch a large-scale assault if no agreement is reached. 
"There seems to be a very good chance that they can work something out. 
If we can do that without bombing the hell out of them, I would be very happy," Trump told reporters gathered for a drug price announcement on Monday. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 20.4%Steve Holland: 1.8%Newsmax: 3.4%Confirmation Bias20.4%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 1.2%Newsmax: 0.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 4.7%Newsmax: 3.2%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 1.5%Newsmax: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.6%Newsmax: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 4.6%Newsmax: 3.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 22.3%Steve Holland: 20.2%Newsmax: 11.0%Framing Effect22.3%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 3.0%Newsmax: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 2.5%Newsmax: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.0%Newsmax: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 47.1%Steve Holland: 8.9%Newsmax: 4.1%Optimism Bias47.1%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 5.9%Newsmax: 2.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 32.5%Steve Holland: 15.3%Newsmax: 10.3%Negativity Bias32.5%This article: 17.8%Steve Holland: 3.2%Newsmax: 3.0%Self-Serving Bias17.8%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 2.6%Newsmax: 1.2%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.0%Newsmax: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 1.6%Newsmax: 2.7%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 1.1%Newsmax: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 2.9%Newsmax: 2.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.6%Newsmax: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.0%Newsmax: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 30.6%Steve Holland: 1.7%Newsmax: 1.9%Recency Bias30.6%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.0%Newsmax: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.3%Newsmax: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.5%Newsmax: 1.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.0%Newsmax: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 5.9%Newsmax: 4.8%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 14.6%Steve Holland: 3.0%Newsmax: 2.4%False Dilemma14.6%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 5.0%Newsmax: 1.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.0%Newsmax: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 7.6%Steve Holland: 4.6%Newsmax: 4.2%Hasty Generalization7.6%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.6%Newsmax: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.0%Newsmax: 0.5%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 17.8%Steve Holland: 7.3%Newsmax: 6.0%Appeal to Emotion17.8%This article: 8.9%Steve Holland: 0.5%Newsmax: 1.1%Begging the Question8.9%This article: 30.6%Steve Holland: 10.4%Newsmax: 3.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)30.6%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.0%Newsmax: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.5%Newsmax: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.0%Newsmax: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.8%Newsmax: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.6%Newsmax: 0.9%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.1%Newsmax: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 4.4%Newsmax: 2.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.0%Newsmax: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.2%Newsmax: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.0%Newsmax: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.0%Newsmax: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.4%Newsmax: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 30.6%Steve Holland: 3.5%Newsmax: 3.1%Unattributed Quote30.6%This article: 8.9%Steve Holland: 3.2%Newsmax: 1.9%Quote-first Misdirection8.9%This article: 7.6%Steve Holland: 7.8%Newsmax: 4.1%Biased Writer Voice7.6%This article: 17.8%Steve Holland: 0.6%Newsmax: 1.0%Indoctrination17.8%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.8%Newsmax: 0.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 0.8%Newsmax: 1.5%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Holland: 1.6%Newsmax: 1.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

157 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker92%attributed speech12writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 48 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 32 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 23 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 14 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 28 words • 100.0% coverage
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Donald Trump

100%flagged-word coverage
145 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-100.0 ptsWriter: 100.0%Donald Trump: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote+33.1 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 33.1%33.1%Indoctrination+19.3 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 19.3%19.3%Quote-first Misdirection+9.7 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 9.7%9.7%

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

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Analysis

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