A podium slip and a deferred answer frame ITV's Zacharia exit clip

The minute-long Short moves from her first briefing on October 13 to Donald Trump explaining what he told her three days later.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 220,354 views a day, 30 times a normal first day on this channel (7,264).

New White House press secretary leaving after a rocky five days in the role

Katie Zacharia's time as White House press secretary fits into less than a minute of footage, and ITV News uses most of it on her first and only briefing.

The Short opens on October 13. Zacharia takes the podium and tells reporters, "I am so honoured to work for President Trump and the American people as the new White House press secretary." Moments later comes a slip: "So my president. Excuse me, my husband," she says, and laughs it off. A reporter then asks whether the US has stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine. "I'll have to get back to you on that," she replies. The clip also includes an announcement about the US Navy's submarine repair center in Cleveland, Ohio.

The clip then cuts to October 16 and to Trump, speaking to reporters outdoors. He says he advised her to step back for the sake of her family life: "I said to her, honestly, if I were you, I'd reconsider." ITV's description adds her farewell post, in which she called working for him an honor.

The Short passed 190,000 views within 17 hours, a pace this channel's Shorts rarely reach. The comments came in about five times faster than on a usual first day, and much of the talk measures the five days against other brief tenures, with Liz Truss and Anthony Scaramucci both getting a mention.

Ukraine also runs through the channel's other busy Short of the day: Trump putting a new package of Russia sanctions on hold, which Volodymyr Zelenskyy called "unfortunate." Closer to home, ITV's video of rival leaders reacting to its undercover Reform UK investigation is drawing an unusually large number of comments ahead of the full documentary's broadcast on ITV1.

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A one-minute report on a five-day tenure is moving far faster than this channel's Shorts usually do.

the video's first day

usual first day here

7,264

this video

220,354

subscribers

2,260,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,684,431,096

views per day

1,937,629

typical day: 1,209,089

the video

views

192,069

likes

336

comments

147

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

ITV News

2,260,000

7NEWS Australia

2,260,000

BBC World Service

2,240,000

CBC News: The National

2,200,000

GBNews

2,190,000

Localish

2,180,000

As of October 18, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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