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Trump: We ‘Completed’ Goals in Iran, Strikes Will ‘Continue’, Not Sure They’ll Make Deal, Deal Is How War Ends 69%

By Ian Hanchett76%

7/14/2026, 8:05:59 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Negativity Bias, and False Dilemma, with Overconfidence Bias as the most egregious example at 28.1% saturation with 91 hits. Analysis detected 613 faulty-reasoning hits from 324 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 63.3% and a BS Rank of 69% (4,981 of 15,860 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 68.60% of the article peer group.

During a portion of an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” President Donald Trump said that the objectives of ensuring Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon, keeping the Strait of Hormuz open, and degrading Iran’s military are “completed” and strikes on Iran will “continue until I say that’s enough.” 
Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst asked, “So, your objectives are to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon, to keep the Strait open, and to degrade the Iranian military. 
Can those objectives be completed in an air campaign alone or does this require a ground component?” 
Trump responded, “I think they’re completed now, honestly. 
If we left right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild what they have. 
The only way you can negotiate with these people is through strength, and the only strength is military strength, and that’s what we’ve done. 
And, literally, two days ago, we had a deal, and then they broke it at the last moment. 
They broke it.” 
Yingst followed up, “Will these strikes continue?” 
Trump answered, “They’ll continue until I say that’s enough. 
They’ll continue. 
They’ve been  the word the military likes to use is degrade. 
They’ve been degraded to a very low level, and they have fight. 
It’s like a great boxer, you think you have him beat, and then, all of a sudden, he comes back and he gives you a shot. 
They have some fight left, but they don’t have much, and their weapon degrading has been incredible at a level, nobody thought it was possible to do it this quickly.” 
Trump also stated that he thinks the war will end with Iran being forced into signing a deal, but he’s also unsure if they will make a deal. 
Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett 
Confirmation Bias
5.6%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
4.9%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
28.1%
Framing Effect
9.6%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
3.7%
Pessimism Bias
8.6%
Negativity Bias
15.7%
Self-Serving Bias
7.4%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0.9%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0.6%
Primacy Effect
5.9%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
3.7%
False Dilemma
12.7%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
7.4%
Hasty Generalization
10.2%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
10.5%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
8%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
12.3%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
2.8%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
17%
Quote-first Misdirection
5.9%
Biased Writer Voice
5.9%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
1.9%

324 words analyzed.

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