Trump's Cuba remark gives USA TODAY a hundredfold opening pace
The short clip, titled with the president's own words, drew nearly one comment for every two likes.
USA TODAYStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 901,120 views a day, 138 times a normal first day on this channel (6,522).
Trump on Cuba: 'I don't think we'll need the military'
A fresh USA TODAY upload usually spends its first day gathering views in the thousands, a steady trickle for a national news outlet with a deep back catalog. "Trump on Cuba: 'I don't think we'll need the military'" broke that pattern straight away, opening at a pace more than a hundred times the channel's ordinary first day.
The title does most of the explaining. It is built around a single quote from the president on Cuba, in his own words, with nothing added.
The response was not only in views. Comments arrived at a clip that entertainment channels rarely see: nearly one for every two likes. That is the mark of a news video people want to talk about, on a channel that the newspaper founded in 1982 has turned into one of the larger news outlets on the platform.
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- Channel
- USA TODAY
- Subscribers
- 7,570,000
- Video published
- September 26, 2026
- Video views so far
- 272,017 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 901,120
The numbers
The figures below show a first day far outside the usual range for this news channel.
