Overview

• $22 million will be directed to the Trust for the National Mall for the White House State Ballroom project, which the White House has estimated could cost about $200 million.
• An additional $2.5 million will be paid to other plaintiffs, including the American Conservative Union and Naomi Wolf, according to the court filing.
• The settlement notice states it does not constitute an admission of liability or fault by Alphabet or related parties.
• YouTube is the last major platform to resolve Trump’s 2021 deplatforming suits, following Meta’s roughly $25 million deal in January and X’s about $10 million in February after accounts were reinstated in 2022–2023.
• Negotiations reportedly included discussions with Sundar Pichai and Sergey Brin at Mar-a-Lago, and the deal comes as Google faces antitrust pressure and Democratic senators have questioned potential implications of such settlements.