Hawk watches Musk defend his role in European politics
A silent split-screen reaction draws an unusually fast start, with Musk's response to criticism becoming the focus of the comments.
Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk
Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 410,799 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (32,668).
He should be in prison
Hawk doesn't say a word as an interviewer asks Elon Musk why he should be able to shape European politics when he doesn't live there. The question, and Musk's answer, do the talking in this fast-starting Short.
"I think of it as the sort of the West collectively," Musk replies. Pressed about people who loathe his use of wealth and power to influence politics, he acknowledges that some do, then says, "I don't care." He later points to the size of his social media audience as evidence that more people like him than dislike him.
Hawk watches from the other half of the screen, leaving the interview excerpt uninterrupted. In the comments, viewers repeatedly return to Musk's declaration that he doesn't care, questioning how that fits with his subsequent appeal to his popularity.
The upload reached roughly 227,000 views in nine hours. Its comment section was already more than a dozen times as busy as a usual full first day for Hawk's Shorts.
Another pointed upload is also drawing attention: "Billionaires must go," the October video we discussed as we reported here, has reached about 2.5 million views.
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- Channel
- Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk
- Subscribers
- 875,000 ▲ 4,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 20,037,048
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,166,323 (on a normal day: 2,974,226)
- Video published
- October 23, 2026
- Video views so far
- 227,122 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 410,799
The numbers
This Short is running well ahead of Hawk's usual opening pace, even while daily viewing across the channel is below its typical level.
