Trump: Iran Will Pay for Ship Damage With Its Own Frozen Funds ⁠94%

By Scott McClallen⁠27%

7/23/2026, 7:06:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Loss Aversion, Negativity Bias, and Framing Effect, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 48.2% saturation with 80 hits. Analysis detected 639 faulty-reasoning hits from 166 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 90.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠94% (1,265 of 21,197 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 94.00% of the article peer group.

Any damage inflicted by Iran on ships in the Strait of Hormuz will be paid for by Iranian money that the U.S. holds, President Donald Trump said on Thursday in a Truth Social post. 
The comment follows after the U.S. has pounded Iran for about 12 days straight. 
Iran and the U.S. tore up a memorandum of understanding that sought peace after Iran repeatedly fired upon ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. 
“Please let this statement serve to represent, until further notice, that from this point forth, any and all damages done to Ships, Cargo, or anything related thereto, will be paid for by Iranian Money that the United States has in its possession, and controls," Trump said. 
"These damages may be very substantial but, nevertheless, this is the fair and equitable thing to do. 
Thank you for your attention to this matter!" 
The U.S. started striking Iran again on Thursday at 6:45 PM 
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166 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker63%attributed speech61writer words
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Writer's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 34 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 46 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 17 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverage
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Donald Trump

92%flagged-word coverage
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0%22.5%45.0%Quote-first Misdirection+43.8 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 43.8%43.8%Unattributed Quote+32.4 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 32.4%32.4%Biased Writer Voice-19.7 ptsWriter: 19.7%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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