Eye-watering amount Trump set to receive from YouTube settlement and what he plans to spend it on

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Meta, the owners of Facebook and Instagram, settled with Trump in January this year by making a $22m donation to Trump's presidential library, as well as a payment of $3 million to cover legal fees.
61% : Donald Trump, already a billionaire, will receive a staggering a settlement payout from YouTube Donald Trump has revealed his plans for a multi-million dollar payout from YouTube.
52% : Trump, known for taste in interior decor, which might be described as 'if King Midas walked into the Palace of Versailles and sneezed', already has plans in place for the enormous sum.
47% : This is in the construction of the White House Ballroom, a project Trump has recently spent a lot of time talking up, including in media appearances following the shooting of far-right podcaster Charlie Kirk.
38% : The money Trump receives from the settlement will be set aside in an entity called the Trust for the National Mall, which is exempt from being taxed.
37% : Thousands of Trump supporters stormed into the Capital building, lounging in the chamber itself, and even bringing makeshift gallows in a chilling threat.
27% : But Trump would then claim that the ban had stopped him from 'exercising his constitutional right of free speech'.
25% : Trump was suspended from YouTube following the attempted insurrection, before having his profile restored two years later so that voters could 'hear equally from major national candidates in the run-up to an election'.
23% : Trump brought a lawsuit against YouTube over its suspension of his account following the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol building.
16% : The social media platform agreed to pay out some $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Trump and others over his suspension from YouTube in 2021, including $22m to Trump and $2.5m to other plaintiffs.

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