Video taking off 10x its usual first day

Two former White House communications directors: Scaramucci and Nicolle Wallace on a 'MORE dangerous' Trump

Under the Short, the talk is of pardons, presidential immunity and the 1649 trial of Charles I, while several viewers single out the Mooch's optimism.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 201,627 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (20,061).

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Anthony Scaramucci and Nicolle Wallace share an unusual line on their résumés: both once ran communications at the White House. Wallace held the job under George W. Bush before moving to television, where she became best known as the host of MSNBC's Deadline: White House. Scaramucci held it under Donald Trump in July 2017, for a stretch so short it became a late-night punchline and gave him the nickname his tags still use, the Mooch.

A piece of their conversation, cut into a Short titled "Trump Will Become MORE Dangerous (Here's How) I Anthony Scaramucci and Nicole Wallace", passed 130,000 views eleven hours after it went up. That is around ten times what one of his Shorts usually draws in a whole first day, and the comment section moved even faster than the views.

What are people writing about? Mostly the machinery of power: presidential pardons, the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity, and whether the midterms will go ahead smoothly. One British viewer reaches back to 1649 and the treason charge against King Charles I. Not everything is dark, though. A number of comments pick up on Scaramucci's optimism and repeat the belief that the country can still fix this.

The contrast with the rest of his week is sharp. On the same day he posted three other Shorts, on letting your children see you fail, on Americans who feel left behind and on the two sides of the American Dream, and each sits at a few thousand views. The channel as a whole is running below its usual pace, so this one clip is carrying it.

It fits the argument Scaramucci has been making in his book All the Wrong Moves, whose subtitle traces the rise of Trump back to three catastrophic decisions.

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The facts
Subscribers
284,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
2,105,766
Channel views, pace per day
298,964 (on a normal day: 463,011)
Video published
October 7, 2026
Video views so far
132,738 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
201,627

The numbers

One Short with a familiar guest left the rest of the channel's day far behind.

the video's first day
usual first day here
20,061
this video
201,627
subscribers
284,000
▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days
total views
155,322,676
views per day
298,964
typical day: 463,011
the video
views
132,738
likes
7,011
comments
536
days online
1
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
The Bitchuation Room (wit…
289,000
Jeff Square
289,000
Dave Neal
287,000
Charlie Angus
286,000
Anthony Scaramucci
284,000
The Logical Leftist
278,000
As of October 8, 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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