Privately extorted funding, that is.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/youtube-agrees-pay-245-milli...

> YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump and other plaintiffs after he was suspended from the platform in 2021, according to a court filing.

> According to the filing, $22 million will be used to support Trump’s construction of a White House State Ballroom and will be held in a tax-exempt entity called the Trust for the National Mall.

A president privately paying for a ball room that they will only use for 3 more years?

I don't think that's really peak corruption. He could have just kept the money.

It's simply a donation of a building. Not sure how you can spin that as corruption.

> A president privately paying…

There's zero evidence of this. (And plenty of evidence to the contrary, like the YouTube settlement.)

> He could have pocketed the money.

He effectively is. https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/09/09/preside...

The Youtube settlement is his money. Youtube censored him, admitted it was the Biden admin directing it, and settled.

Trump can either donate the money or pocket it.

I'm not sure why you linked his net worth gain, has nothing to do with this conversation of donating this specific building.

> The Youtube settlement is his money…

… obtained via the power and threat of the public office. There's a good reason all these suits started getting settled only after he regained office.

> I'm not sure why you linked his net worth gain…

Because he's growing his wealth via the Presidency far greater than $20M he's "donating" out of someone else's pocket?

> There's a good reason all these suits started getting settled only after he regained office.

Yes, because as Google admitted, the Biden administration was the one instructing them to do so, of course the suits started after the Biden admin.

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Source: https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/google-admi...

Full letter from Google: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-j...

Where are you getting that from?

https://deadline.com/2025/09/trumo-youtube-settlement-123656...

> According to the filing, the settlement “shall not constitute an admission of liability or fault on the part of the Defendants or their agents, servants, or employees, and is entered into by all Parties for the sole purpose of compromising disputed claims and avoiding the expenses and risks of further litigation.” Google/YouTube also did not agree to any product or policy changes.