Trump shows reporters the White House ballroom construction site ⁠97%

5/20/2026, 12:32:04 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Self-Serving Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 49.4% saturation with 122 hits. Analysis detected 585 faulty-reasoning hits from 247 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 95.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠97% (615 of 20,248 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 97.00% of the video peer group.

There will never be another building like this built. 
That I can tell you. 
I built a lot of great things. 
Shouting over banging and clinging sounds from heavy construction equipment, President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave a group of reporters a closer look at the construction for the White House ballroom. 
It's being built on the former site of the East Wing, but the project has hit a speed bump in Congress. 
The administration has asked for $1 billion from taxpayers for security additions on the White House campus, including for the ballroom, but the Senate parliamentarian ruled the proposal could not be included in a bill to fund immigrant enforcement agencies for 3 years. 
And several Republican lawmakers have balked at the price tag. 
So, Trump surprised White House reporters by bringing them to a platform overlooking the construction site. 
He repeated that the $400 million ballroom cost will be covered by donors, including him. 
So, all of this was paid for by myself. 
We are making a gift of this one. 
This is a gift. 
This is not going to be paid for by the taxpayer. 
This is a gift to the United States of America. 
Trump insisted he will have very little time to use the ballroom. 
He recently announced that it will be ready in September 2028, less than 6 months before his term ends. 
This face is this is a different facade. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 9.3%Associated Press: 1.8%Confirmation Bias9.3%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 12.6%Associated Press: 2.9%Availability Heuristic12.6%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.6%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 9.3%Associated Press: 0.9%Overconfidence Bias9.3%This article: 49.4%Associated Press: 4.9%Framing Effect49.4%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.7%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 5.3%Associated Press: 2.6%Optimism Bias5.3%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 17.4%Associated Press: 7.0%Negativity Bias17.4%This article: 23.9%Associated Press: 1.4%Self-Serving Bias23.9%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 4.0%Associated Press: 0.9%In-Group Bias4.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 6.9%Associated Press: 1.8%Halo Effect6.9%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 7.7%Associated Press: 1.1%Recency Bias7.7%This article: 3.6%Associated Press: 0.2%Primacy Effect3.6%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 5.7%Associated Press: 3.8%Appeal to Authority5.7%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.8%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 3.6%Associated Press: 2.4%Hasty Generalization3.6%This article: 17.4%Associated Press: 0.0%Red Herring17.4%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 26.3%Associated Press: 4.0%Appeal to Emotion26.3%This article: 1.6%Associated Press: 0.4%Begging the Question1.6%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 2.8%Associated Press: 1.0%Anecdotal2.8%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 17.4%Associated Press: 0.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)17.4%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.7%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 12.6%Associated Press: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice12.6%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.3%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

247 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker26%attributed speech184writer words
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Writer's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 9 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 5 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 31 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 43 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 9 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 8 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 4 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 11 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Donald Trump

100%flagged-word coverage
63 attributed words100% of attributed speech91% writer coverage
0%10.0%20.0%Biased Writer Voice-16.8 ptsWriter: 16.8%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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Analysis

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