ABC News99%

Reflecting Pool troubles 88%

6/22/2026, 12:30:01 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 31 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Negativity Bias, and Anecdotal, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 37% saturation with 105 hits. Analysis detected 1,142 faulty-reasoning hits from 284 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 80.9% and a BS Rank of 88% (2,649 of 21,886 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 87.90% of the video peer group.

Latest on the problems with the reflecting pool in Washington after a multi-million dollar renovation. 
President Trump weighed in on the situation over the weekend. 
Elizabeth Schulze is at the White House with more on this. 
Good morning to you, Elizabeth. 
>> Good morning to you, Robin. Just 2 weeks after President Trump completed his more than $16 million renovation of the iconic reflecting pool, he now says it will need to be drained and repaired immediately. 
Last week, pieces of that new coating that the the president applied to describe as it a American flag blue color began peeling off. 
Trump now claims that vandalism is to blame, but he's provided no evidence to prove it. 
At least one person has been arrested. 
Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn tells ABC News that he was cycling near the pool and touched a loose piece of the coating, but did not rip, tear, break, destroy, or harm any part of it. 
This taxpayer-funded renovation has been plagued with issues. 
Within days of reopening this month, the pool's color went from blue to an algae-clouded green. 
Work crews have been combating the algae with vacuum pumps and strainers, even pouring hydrogen peroxide directly into the water. 
The company that applied the coating says it identified some areas of the pool that require repairs and confirmed that it will need to be drained. 
That company, along with a water purification business that's owned by a long-time donor to President Trump, bypassed the traditional bidding process that's typically [music] used to do work on national parks, guys. 
>> And that could have been part of the problem right there. 
All right, Elizabeth, thanks to you. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 13.4%ABC News: 2.2%Confirmation Bias13.4%This article: 18.0%ABC News: 0.7%Anchoring Bias18.0%This article: 37.0%ABC News: 3.0%Availability Heuristic37.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 4.2%ABC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias4.2%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 20.8%ABC News: 6.8%Framing Effect20.8%This article: 2.8%ABC News: 0.3%Loss Aversion2.8%This article: 3.5%ABC News: 0.4%Status Quo Bias3.5%This article: 7.0%ABC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect7.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 2.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 12.7%ABC News: 1.0%Pessimism Bias12.7%This article: 29.6%ABC News: 7.7%Negativity Bias29.6%This article: 12.7%ABC News: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias12.7%This article: 14.8%ABC News: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error14.8%This article: 12.7%ABC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias12.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 11.6%ABC News: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias11.6%This article: 3.9%ABC News: 2.2%Halo Effect3.9%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 18.3%ABC News: 1.3%Recency Bias18.3%This article: 3.9%ABC News: 0.4%Primacy Effect3.9%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 5.6%ABC News: 0.5%Ad Hominem5.6%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 25.4%ABC News: 3.3%Appeal to Authority25.4%This article: 11.6%ABC News: 0.9%False Dilemma11.6%This article: 4.2%ABC News: 0.3%Slippery Slope4.2%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 7.7%ABC News: 2.8%Hasty Generalization7.7%This article: 11.6%ABC News: 0.4%Red Herring11.6%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 14.4%ABC News: 4.3%Appeal to Emotion14.4%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 34.2%ABC News: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)34.2%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 5.6%ABC News: 0.4%Burden of Proof5.6%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 29.2%ABC News: 1.2%Anecdotal29.2%This article: 12.7%ABC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman12.7%This article: 2.8%ABC News: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)2.8%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 1.1%ABC News: 0.0%Middle Ground1.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 9.2%ABC News: 0.2%Special Pleading9.2%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.9%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 3.1%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

284 words analyzed.

Speakers

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David Hearn

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36 attributed words100% of attributed speech96% writer coverage

No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

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

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Analysis

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