A taxpayer-funded 'Love Me' ad lifts Face the Nation again

The day-old report comes from Weijia Jiang of CBS News 24/7 rather than the Sunday broadcast, and it started at about thirty-seven times the channel's usual first-day pace.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 546,923 views a day, 37 times a normal first day on this channel (14,684).

Lawmakers on both sides push back on taxpayer dollars spent on Trump "Love Me" commercial

Face the Nation has another standout, and this time it isn't a Sunday interview. The channel posted a short report on lawmakers from both parties objecting to President Trump's new television ad campaign, paid for with taxpayer money and labeled in the title as the "Love Me" commercial. A day later it was close to a quarter of a million views.

That is roughly thirty-seven times the start a new video usually gets here. It is also the third video in a row to break well above the channel's usual pace, after Senator John Kennedy's "spending porn" line and the uncut Pezeshkian interview. Perhaps some of the people drawn in by one argument over public money stayed for the next one?

The reporting belongs to CBS News' Weijia Jiang, a familiar face from White House coverage, and the tags mark it as a CBS News 24/7 clip. It is a weekday piece on a channel whose about page describes a Sunday roundtable, with Margaret Brennan hosting leaders and newsmakers on one of the longest-running programs in television history. This week, a quick report from the White House beat is doing as well as the big sit-downs.

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The numbers

The figures below show how far a single day-old report ran ahead of the channel's usual first day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

14,684

this video

546,923

subscribers

821,000

total views

474,832,314

the video

views

240,945

likes

1,358

comments

340

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

BBC Politics

896,000

NPR

889,000

Radio Free Europe/Radio L…

874,000

Fox News Clips

849,000

A Current Affair

836,000

Face the Nation

821,000

As of September 29, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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