Video taking off 18x its usual first day

Roland Martin challenges Trump's account of Black women being rehired

The commentator questions an answer to Stephen A. Smith about job losses, in a Short drawing a much faster audience than usual.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 37,012 views a day, 18 times a normal first day on this channel (2,104).

Roland Martin: Trump Lied to Stephen A. About 300,000 Black Women Who Lost Their Jobs

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Roland Martin checks his tablet, repeats the answer he attributes to Donald Trump, then looks up with a single question: "Really?"

The exchange at issue comes from Stephen A. Smith's White House interview with Trump. Martin says Smith asked about Black women losing their jobs and Trump responded that they had been rehired in corporate America, often at higher pay. Martin calls that answer a lie.

The Short has drawn nearly 20,000 views in nine hours, already far beyond the channel's usual full first day for that format. It isolates one employment claim from Martin's broader criticism of the interview, giving his skeptical response less than half a minute to land.

Smith, familiar to sports audiences through his ESPN basketball analysis, is also the interviewer at the center of Martin's companion upload, "Trump-Stephen A sitdown Part 2: Roland debunks more MAGA lies". That longer discussion is drawing an unusually large audience too. There, Martin challenges Trump's account of historically Black college funding, emphasizing Congress's role and questioning which assertions Smith should have pressed.

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The facts

Channel: Roland S. Martin
Subscribers: 1,970,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 5,888,520
Channel views, pace per day: 844,259 (on a normal day: 764,710)
Video published: November 14, 2026
Video views so far: 19,635 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 37,012

The numbers

The Short passed the channel's usual first-day views well before a full day had elapsed. The longer follow-up is also running ahead of its usual start.

the video's first day

usual first day here

2,104

this video

37,012

subscribers

1,970,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,029,180,331

views per day

844,259

typical day: 764,710

the video

views

19,635

likes

783

comments

days online

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Tucker Carlson Network

2,050,000

1,980,000

1,970,000

1,960,000

1,940,000

1,910,000

As of November 15, 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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