Video taking off 9.9x its usual first day

Anthony Scaramucci imagines Trump's name on the Lincoln Memorial

A digitally added gold-letter sign makes the joke explicit in The Rest Is Politics US's unusually fast-starting outdoor clip.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 189,086 views a day, 9.9 times a normal first day on this channel (19,185).

The Mooch reacts to the Reflecting Pool...

Katty Kay sees something resembling a parking lot where the Reflecting Pool's water should be. Anthony Scaramucci sees an opening for a question about Donald Trump's presidency.

Standing near Washington's monuments, the hosts turn construction at the pool into political commentary in "The Mooch reacts to the Reflecting Pool...". The Short drew roughly 130,000 views in its first twelve hours, already well beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for the format.

Kay blames Trump for the work and uses the drained pool as a metaphor for his approach to governing. Her argument is that he presents things as problems only he can solve, then intervenes in ways that make them worse. She cites Iran, tariffs and immigration as examples.

Scaramucci takes the conversation from policy to presidential branding. Pointing out the Lincoln Memorial behind the camera, he asks: "When will Donald Trump put his name on the Lincoln Memorial?"

This is a hypothetical joke, not an announcement of a renaming. The clip illustrates it with a digitally added image of gold "TRUMP" lettering above the memorial's columns.

Kay questions whether Trump would go that far. Scaramucci's answer leaves their disagreement neatly intact: "It's not a zero percent chance."

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The facts

Channel: The Rest Is Politics US
Subscribers: 413,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 1,147,571
Channel views, pace per day: 72,582 (on a normal day: 166,038)
Video published: October 19, 2026
Video views so far: 130,264 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 189,086

The numbers

The Reflecting Pool Short passed the channel's usual full-day Shorts audience within its first half-day. Its comment section was also substantially busier than usual.

the video's first day

usual first day here

19,185

this video

189,086

subscribers

413,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

125,314,466

views per day

72,582