Donald Trump
YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million in settlement for a lawsuit filed by US President, Donald Trump.
Trump sued YouTube and its CEO for suspending his account after the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to court papers filed on Monday, September 29, 2025.
Multiple US media reports indicated that in settling the lawsuit, YouTube agreed that $22 million will be paid into the Trust for the US National Mall, a fund that is “dedicated to restoring, preserving, elevating that National Mall” and “to support the construction of the White House State Ballbroom” President Trump is building.
According to reports, the settlement was filed in the U.S. District Court in Northern California, ending a four-year legal battle between YouTube and President Trump.
President Trump also recently settled with Meta and X after suing the Big Tech firms for similar suspensions. His accounts on Meta and X were restored in 2022, and his YouTube account was restored in 2023.
In January 2025, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, agreed to pay $25 million to President Trump to settle a 2021 lawsuit over its own suspension of his accounts following the Capitol attack.
A month later, X agreed to pay him $10 million to settle its lawsuit, which was filed before billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk bought the platform.
The lawsuit against YouTube argued that the suspension violated President Trump’s First Amendment rights because it was allegedly done “in response to coercion of the federal government”, a report by CBS News sighted by Africa Publicity indicated.
