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Trump Claims New U.S. Passports Say ‘Welcome, But Be Good’ for Some Reason ⁠29%

By Michael Luciano⁠57%

6/26/2026, 3:14:49 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Confirmation Bias, and Representativeness Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 19.3% saturation with 62 hits. Analysis detected 476 faulty-reasoning hits from 321 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 39.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠29% (15,666 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 71.60% of the article peer group.

President Donald Trump posted an image of a new U.S. passport design and claimed that the document says, “Welcome, but be good.” 
The image of the passport does not appear to feature those words. 
The more notable takeaway, however, is that a welcome message/admonition would make sense on a U.S.-issued visa to foreign nationals, but not a passport, which can only be held by U.S. citizens and certain nationals already living in the U.S. 
The president posted the image on Friday afternoon. 
One of the pages in the passport shows him with his hands on a table, leaning forward. 
In April, The Bulwark reported that the U.S. 
State Department had initiated a “radical redesign” of the U.S. passport. 
However, the one unveiled then features a different image of Trump, that of his second inaugural portrait. 
In his second term, Trump has put his name or image on a whole host of things, most notably the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. 
Last month, a judge ordered Trump's name removed from the building. 
Two weeks ago, crews took the name off, but before doing so, they put up a tarp to hide the removal from the public. 
Trump also put his name on the U.S. 
Institute of Peace, national park passes, and banners with his face on them around Washington, D.C., including ones at the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, and the Department of the Interior. 
The president also named a class of battleships after himself and said he would help design them. 
“The U.S. 
Navy will lead the design of the ships, along with me because I’m a very aesthetic person, alongside our partners in American industry,” Trump said in December. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 12.5%Michael Luciano: 5.0%Mediaite: 5.0%Confirmation Bias12.5%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.9%Mediaite: 0.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 3.4%Michael Luciano: 2.7%Mediaite: 3.8%Availability Heuristic3.4%This article: 12.5%Michael Luciano: 0.9%Mediaite: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic12.5%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 1.7%Mediaite: 2.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 7.8%Michael Luciano: 7.3%Mediaite: 9.1%Framing Effect7.8%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.3%Mediaite: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.5%Mediaite: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.5%Mediaite: 1.2%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 2.0%Mediaite: 1.6%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 19.3%Michael Luciano: 15.7%Mediaite: 14.7%Negativity Bias19.3%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 1.4%Mediaite: 1.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 1.9%Mediaite: 1.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.3%Mediaite: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 1.1%Mediaite: 2.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 2.4%Mediaite: 2.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 10.3%Michael Luciano: 0.9%Mediaite: 1.3%Halo Effect10.3%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 1.3%Mediaite: 0.7%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 8.1%Michael Luciano: 1.6%Mediaite: 2.3%Recency Bias8.1%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.5%Mediaite: 0.6%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 3.3%Mediaite: 3.8%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.9%Mediaite: 1.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 5.9%Michael Luciano: 4.3%Mediaite: 3.5%Appeal to Authority5.9%This article: 12.5%Michael Luciano: 2.4%Mediaite: 2.4%False Dilemma12.5%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 1.6%Mediaite: 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 18.4%Michael Luciano: 6.2%Mediaite: 7.6%Hasty Generalization18.4%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.6%Mediaite: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.4%Mediaite: 0.9%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 4.3%Mediaite: 6.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 1.8%Mediaite: 1.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 3.6%Mediaite: 2.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 12.5%Michael Luciano: 1.4%Mediaite: 1.2%Burden of Proof12.5%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 3.4%Michael Luciano: 5.4%Mediaite: 3.0%Anecdotal3.4%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.2%Mediaite: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 6.5%Michael Luciano: 2.8%Mediaite: 2.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)6.5%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.3%Mediaite: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 1.3%Mediaite: 0.6%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 6.9%Michael Luciano: 1.3%Mediaite: 3.3%Unattributed Quote6.9%This article: 0.6%Michael Luciano: 2.5%Mediaite: 3.2%Quote-first Misdirection0.6%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 6.9%Mediaite: 8.3%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 2.0%Mediaite: 1.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 2.3%Mediaite: 2.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Luciano: 1.5%Mediaite: 1.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 7.8%Michael Luciano: 2.5%Mediaite: 1.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…7.8%

321 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers14%attributed speech275writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 40 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageThe Bulwark • 8 words • 0.0% coverageThe Bulwark • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 33 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverageTrump • 27 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

The Bulwark

100%flagged-word coverage
19 attributed words41% of attributed speech74% writer coverage
0%5.0%10.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -9.1 ptsWriter: 9.1%The Bulwark: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-8.0 ptsWriter: 8.0%The Bulwark: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-0.7 ptsWriter: 0.7%The Bulwark: 0.0%0.0%

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

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Analysis

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