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YouTube's $24.5 million settlement routed $22 million to Trump's ballroom project

Reporting and findings

  1. settled

    YouTube agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle Donald Trump's account-suspension lawsuit, including $22 million for the Trust for the National Mall to support a White House ballroom project, without admitting wrongdoing.

Summary and current status

The platform settled Trump's account-suspension lawsuit without admitting wrongdoing.

Settlement executed without admission of wrongdoing

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Relationships in this file

  1. Donald J. Trumpsecured platform settlement funding ballroom projectTrump v. YouTube account-suspension settlement

Money trail

  1. paymentYouTube White House ballroom allocation$22 million
    Committed by / source
    YouTube
    Committed to
    Trust for the National Mall
    committed · 2025-09-29 · observedRead source record
    Calculation detailsPopulation Component of YouTube's $24.5 million settlement designated for the Trust for the National Mall to support a White House State BallroomPeriod 2025-09-29 to 2025-09-29Basis Expressly designated ballroom-project component reported from the court filing by ABC News, nested within the settlement total.Limits The settlement directs the contribution to the Trust; the receipt and spending dates are unverified.
  2. paymentYouTube account-suspension settlement total$24.5 million
    Committed by / source
    YouTube
    Committed to
    Trump v. YouTube settlement recipients
    committed · 2025-09-29 · observedRead source record
    Calculation detailsPopulation Entire settlement of Trump and the other plaintiffs' account-suspension claims against YouTubePeriod 2025-09-29 to 2025-09-29Basis Executed settlement total reported from the court filing by ABC News, with the $22 million ballroom allocation nested inside it.Limits The cited claim does not separately encode the allocation of the $2.5 million remainder among the other plaintiffs.