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Seth Meyers reacts to Trump mocking affordability with new segment 57%

7/31/2026, 4:58:50 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Unattributed Quote, and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 44.4% saturation with 161 hits. Analysis detected 877 faulty-reasoning hits from 363 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 46.2% and a BS Rank of 57% (13,208 of 30,584 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 56.80% of the article peer group.

As Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas , Donald Trump threw his "Make America Affordable Again" promise in the trash at a recent campaign rally , with the president mocking "affordability" during his speech - even saying aloud, "What's affordability?" 
On Late Night , Seth Meyers reacted to Trump's comments with a new segment he likes to call "I Feel F***ing Crazy." 
And, yeah. 
"Can I tell you guys a secret? 
I feel f***ing crazy," said Meyers. 
"What do you mean , 'what's affordability?' 
You're the one who said it! 
You said we were going to 'make America affordable again.' 
Affordability is the noun form of the adjective affordable, you f***ing dropout. 
This is like if, after chanting 'build that wall' for four years, he admitted he didn't know what a wall was. 
Build that wall so I can finally lay eyes on one. 
You hear a lot about them. 
You never see walls. 
Someone told me I see walls every day, but then they pointed to one. 
I said, 'That's not a wall. 
That's a side roof.' 
" 
Seth Meyers reacts to Trump being called a 'pedophile protector' 
Meyers pointed out that during the rally, Trump also mocked reporters for asking him why prices were so high in a press conference. 
"You're the president , of course they're asking you why prices are so high," said Meyers. 
"Who do you want them to ask, Jimothy ? 
By the way, let's be clear: Do not let Jimothy anywhere near the White House. 
RFK will just assume his Uber Eats showed up early." 
Meyers noted that while Americans are "struggling to afford food while Trump and his family line their pockets ," Trump's job approval has again hit a record low - it's currently at -25, with 60 percent of Americans disapproving of the president, according to The Economist . 
"The president's job approval rating is at a new all-time low, and the reason is simple," concluded Meyers. 
"He promised to bring down prices and keep us out of wars. 
And in both cases, he's done the opposite. 
He's good at enriching himself." 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 9.1%Mashable: 1.9%Confirmation Bias9.1%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 1.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 22.6%Mashable: 2.6%Availability Heuristic22.6%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 8.3%Mashable: 2.1%Overconfidence Bias8.3%This article: 28.7%Mashable: 4.6%Framing Effect28.7%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 3.5%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 1.7%Mashable: 0.9%Pessimism Bias1.7%This article: 44.4%Mashable: 4.5%Negativity Bias44.4%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.7%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 3.0%Mashable: 0.4%Fundamental Attribution Error3.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 4.1%Mashable: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias4.1%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 3.3%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 6.1%Mashable: 1.1%Recency Bias6.1%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 3.3%Mashable: 0.2%Ad Hominem3.3%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 2.7%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 4.7%Mashable: 1.2%False Dilemma4.7%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 3.9%Mashable: 4.4%Hasty Generalization3.9%This article: 3.0%Mashable: 0.2%Red Herring3.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 1.0%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 7.2%Mashable: 2.6%Appeal to Emotion7.2%This article: 5.0%Mashable: 0.6%Begging the Question5.0%This article: 14.3%Mashable: 1.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)14.3%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.2%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 9.6%Mashable: 2.0%Anecdotal9.6%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 12.4%Mashable: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)12.4%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 24.2%Mashable: 1.1%Unattributed Quote24.2%This article: 1.9%Mashable: 0.5%Quote-first Misdirection1.9%This article: 11.3%Mashable: 8.3%Biased Writer Voice11.3%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 1.8%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 12.9%Mashable: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias12.9%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 14.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

363 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker57%attributed speech156writer words
Selected voice

Seth Meyers

85%flagged-word coverage
207 attributed words100% of attributed speech98% writer coverage
0%30.0%60.0%Unattributed Quote-56.4 ptsWriter: 56.4%Seth Meyers: 0.0%0.0%Politically Left Leaning B-30.1 ptsWriter: 30.1%Seth Meyers: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-26.3 ptsWriter: 26.3%Seth Meyers: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection+3.4 ptsWriter: 0.0%Seth Meyers: 3.4%3.4%

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

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