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Mike Johnson’s Excuse for Trump’s Russia Deal Is Beyond Parody
LongNews & Politics
Published Oct 18, 2026
Views
526K
Likes
11K
Speed /h
15K
+24h
+228K
Early catch
Updated 07:15 AMBeat 90% of videos its age, 8 h after upload.
- Vs usual
- –
- Views/h now
- 1K
- Channel size
- –
Black: this video’s views at each read. Shaded: the median to the top 10% (the board’s reach bar) of all videos of its format at the same age; dashed: their top 1%.
Views over time
Views gained each hour, UTC- Views
- 525.3K
- Best hour
- +25K
- At 24 hours
- 509K
- At 7 days
- –
25 of 25 hours read. A gap is an hour we didn’t read close enough to say, not an hour without views.
viralshooter analytics
Our calculations on YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics.
Position
- Speed percentile
- 63 / 100
- Category percentile
- 96 / 100
- ×base
- ×6
- Channel typical
- 88K · average
Dynamics
- Phase
- fading
- Acceleration
- 0.05×
- Momentum
- ×2.58
- Decay
- 0.95
- Speed half-life
- 36h
Engagement
- Like rate
- 2.14%
- Comments per 1k views
- 2.09
- Engagement rate
- 2.34%
- Views per subscriber
- 0.29×
- Crossed a language border
- No
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| Region | Chart | Best rank | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | Category chart | #13 | Oct 19 |
| Australia | Category chart | #27 | Oct 19 |
| Ireland | Category chart | #28 | Oct 19 |
| Sweden | Category chart | #29 | Oct 19 |
| Canada | Category chart | #32 | Oct 19 |
| United States | Category chart | #37 | Oct 19 |
34h
From the YouTube record
Fields of the video as the YouTube API returns them.
- Published
- Oct 18, 2026, 10:00 PM
- Duration
- 19:06
- Category
- News & Politics
- Audio language
- English (en-US)
- Title language
- English (en)
- Captions
- No
- Definition
- HD
- Format
- 2D
- License
- Standard YouTube
- Licensed content
- Yes
- Embeddable
- Yes
- Made for kids
- No
- Age-restricted
- No
- Paid promotion
- No
- Public stats
- Yes
Topics
- Politics
- Society
Title and description in 21 languages
- Arabic
- Bangla
- English
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Hebrew
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malayalam
- Punjabi
- Polish
- Russian
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Ukrainian
- German
- Spanish
- French
- Dutch
- Portuguese
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Description
Trump is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, his own energy secretary is contradicting his explanation, and Republicans are scrambling to defend the indefensible. Sam Stein and Will Saletan take on Trump’s latest gift to Putin, Elon Musk’s troubling role in Ukraine’s Starlink crisis, and the disastrous legacy of Lindsey Graham, who helped bring Trump back to power believing he could control him. Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/joinShow all
Trump is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, his own energy secretary is contradicting his explanation, and Republicans are scrambling to defend the indefensible. Sam Stein and Will Saletan take on Trump’s latest gift to Putin, Elon Musk’s troubling role in Ukraine’s Starlink crisis, and the disastrous legacy of Lindsey Graham, who helped bring Trump back to power believing he could control him. Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join
◆ Calculated by viralshooter · all other figures from the YouTube API