Video taking off 11x its usual first day

Zelenskyy answers reporter's Trump "scapegoat" question with a smile

The Associated Press clip captures a brief response at the end of a Brussels press briefing, drawing an unusually large Shorts audience.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 189,704 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (17,171).

Zelenskyy smiles when asked if Trump was treating him as a scapegoat

The reporter's question is lengthy. Volodymyr Zelenskyy's answer is not: he pauses, smiles and gestures toward his expression. "This is my answer," he says.

The exchange came at a press briefing in Brussels on Friday. An off-camera reporter raised Donald Trump's political problems, fuel prices and foreign policy challenges before asking whether the Ukrainian president believed Trump was treating him as a scapegoat. That framing came from the reporter; Zelenskyy did not expand on it in the clip.

Associated Press's Short drew about 120,000 views in its first ten hours, a much faster start than its usual uploads of the same format. The moment is compact enough to see in full, including the pause before Zelenskyy's response.

After smiling and briefly chuckling, he closes with "Thank you so much," gathers his notes and walks away from the lectern as the briefing ends.

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The facts

Channel: Associated Press
Subscribers: 4,690,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 21,741,254
Channel views, pace per day: 3,200,706 (on a normal day: 2,516,443)
Video published: October 16, 2026
Video views so far: 120,541 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 189,704

The numbers

The Brussels clip is drawing views much faster than AP's usual Short. Its first day is still underway.

the video's first day

usual first day here

17,171

this video

189,704

subscribers

4,690,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

4,624,532,670

views per day

3,200,706

typical day: 2,516,443

the video

views

120,541

likes

1,059

comments

366

days online

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

5,190,000

5,030,000

4,920,000

4,770,000

4,690,000

4,260,000

As of October 17, 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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