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Trump's ambassadors give Pod Save the World twenty-five times its usual start

The hosts' tour of the diplomatic corps closed an episode that also took in Xi Jinping's Washington visit, Ethiopia and Manchester City, and the episode moved far faster than anything else on the channel.

Channel: Pod Save the WorldStory of Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 113,915 views a day, 26 times a normal first day on this channel (4,422).

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A new full episode of Pod Save the World usually draws about 4,400 views in its first day. "Trump's Ambassadors Are Creating CHAOS Around the World" had passed 90,000 in fifteen hours, roughly twenty-five times that pace. The short clips around it, including one cut from the same episode, are still in the thousands.

The ambassadors in the title fill only the last segment. Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes, both veterans of President Obama's National Security Council, start with a chapter about the New England Patriots having a rough time. Then they cover Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington, which the description sums up as two pandas and only vague commitments. A long section on Ethiopia follows, where a 2022 peace deal is coming apart and the fighting could merge with the wars in Sudan and Somalia. There is also Manchester City's guilty verdict on 115 Premier League financial charges, an AI check-in, and an interview about Haiti with Sam Vigersky of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The ambassador tour that gives the episode its title includes Charles Kushner ignoring France's foreign ministry and the US envoy to Belgium picking a fight over circumcision.

The comments go well beyond that list. Several Canadian viewers ask why the ambassador in Ottawa was left off it. Football fans are surprised to find a clip of Mark Goldbridge from That's Football in the City segment, and others thank the hosts for covering Ethiopia and Haiti, stories they feel tend to get lost.

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The facts
Subscribers
257,000
Channel views, pace per day
12,784 (on a normal day: 16,759)
Video published
September 30, 2026
Video views so far
91,790 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
113,915

The numbers

The figures show a first day far beyond this channel's usual start, while its other recent uploads kept their normal pace.

the video's first day
usual first day here
4,422
this video
113,915
subscribers
257,000
total views
29,853,808
views per day
12,784
typical day: 16,759
the video
views
91,790
likes
1,884
comments
173
days online
1
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
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260,000
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257,000
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256,000
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255,000
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255,000
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255,000
As of October 1, 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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