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Trump: We’ll Knock Out All of Iran’s Power Plants, Bridges Unless They Come to Table 61%

By Ian Hanchett77%

7/14/2026, 8:05:55 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Slippery Slope, Biased Writer Voice, and Pessimism Bias, with Overconfidence Bias as the most egregious example at 27.9% saturation with 60 hits. Analysis detected 305 faulty-reasoning hits from 215 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 57.6% and a BS Rank of 61% (6,213 of 15,885 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 60.90% 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 stated that energy targets in Iran will be hit and “We’re going to knock out all of their power plants. 
We’re going to knock out all of their bridges, unless they get to the table and negotiate.” 
Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst asked, “Do you anticipate that the strikes we’re seeing this week against Iran will expand? 
Are you considering hitting energy targets or other locations inside of Iran?” 
Trump responded, “They’re going to expand. 
I’ll save the energy targets for last, but, ultimately, we’ll hit energy targets, yeah. 
But we’re going to hit them very hard tonight. 
We’re going to hit them very hard tomorrow night. 
We’re going to hit them very hard the night after, and then, next week, it gets really bad for them, because next week comes the power plants, next week comes the bridges. 
We’re going to knock out all of their power plants. 
We’re going to knock out all of their bridges, unless they get to the table and negotiate.” 
Trump also stated that strikes will “continue until I say that’s enough.” 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
6.5%
Availability Heuristic
0%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
27.9%
Framing Effect
0%
Loss Aversion
5.6%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
17.7%
Negativity Bias
4.2%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
4.2%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
10.2%
False Dilemma
15.8%
Slippery Slope
22.8%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
5.6%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
2.8%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
18.6%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

215 words analyzed.

Analysis

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