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Trump Celebrates YouTube Settlement With Meme Depicting a Humiliated Tech Exec Handing Him a Check for $24.5 Million
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Variety
President Donald Trump took a victory lap after his latest shakedown of a big tech company, sharing a meme showing an embarrassed YouTube exec handing over a giant-size check for $24.5 million to the president.
Pays President Trump $24.5 MILLION for illegal ban!
Of the $24.5 million total payments to settle Trump’s YouTube lawsuit, Alphabet will pay $22 million to Trump, who designated that the funds go to the Trust for the National Mall and toward the construction of the White House ballroom.
In January 2025, Meta agreed to pay $25 million to settle Trump‘s lawsuit.
The following month, Twitter, now controlled by billionaire Elon Musk and called X, paid Trump about $10 million.