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YouTube, Disney and Meta Have All Settled. Inside President Trump’s $90 Million Payday
Settlements address account suspensions and defamation claims, with $90 million awarded to Trump from companies including YouTube, Meta, Disney, and Paramount Global.
- President Donald Trump secured more than $90 million in settlements from media and tech companies including YouTube, Disney-owned ABC News, Meta, Twitter , and Paramount Global by October 2025.
- These settlements followed lawsuits Trump filed after his accounts were suspended post-Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, citing censorship and defamation claims against multiple companies.
- YouTube agreed to pay $24.5 million without admitting wrongdoing, and Disney settled for $16 million including payments toward Trump's presidential library and legal fees.
- Meta paid $25 million in January 2025, and Elon Musk’s X settled for $10 million after suspending Trump's accounts to prevent further violence, while Paramount agreed to a $16 million settlement.
- Trump intends to donate $22 million from the settlement funds to a nonprofit focused on renovating the National Mall and assisting with the $200 million project to build a White House State Ballroom.
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YouTube, Disney and Meta have all settled. Inside President Trump’s $90 million payday
By Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times On Monday, YouTube became the latest media and tech company to settle one of President Donald Trump’s lawsuits. The Google-owned streamer agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit Trump filed after his account was banned following the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol. That brings Trump’s haul from media and tech companies to more than $90 million in the last year. Some of these suits deal with conf…
·Hartford, United States
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