Topics: Donald Trump, Meta, YouTube, Twitter, Business, Money, Bernie Sanders
Donald Trump has made a staggering amount of money in settlements over the course of 2025 - and now he wants even more.
As the President of the United States, Trump will be paid $400,000 a year, a salary that's been the same for all presidents over the last 20 years, says CBS News.
While this might sound a bit tight for all the work the president does, you might feel a little less bad for Trump knowing he also gets an additional $50,000 for expenses (which is non-taxable), a $100,000 travel account and a $19,000 entertainment budget.
Of course, Trump already had his own personal business ventures prior to coming into office and is said to have a net worth of over $7 billion as of September 2025, as per Forbes.
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Bernie Sanders recently took to Twitter to detail the shocking amount of money Trump's said to have made this year, including the cash he's won in court.
Here's which businesses have been forced to fork out millions of dollars to the president this year...
Earlier this year, Meta agreed to pay Trump $25 million. The suit filed by the businessman-turned-politician dates back to 2021 when Trump sued the company (which owns Instagram and Facebook) but suspending his accounts after the January 6 riots.
The restrictions weren't lifted until 2023.
Of the $25 million, $22 million will go towards a fund to pay for Trump’s presidential library, The Guardian reported, which will launch in January 2029.
At the end of September, YouTube agreed to pay Trump $24.5 million to settle yet another suit dating back to 2021. Like Meta, YouTube suspended Trump's channel following the US Capitol riots.
The president alleged that the video sharing platform had 'accumulated an unprecedented concentration of power, market share, and ability to dictate our nation’s public discourse'.
The case was dismissed in light of a settlement being reached.
In February, Twitter, now known as X, agreed to pay Trump $10 million. This was yet another social media platform that suspended his account after the 2021 riots.
Twitter (which wasn't owned by Elon Musk at the time) said the permanent suspension was 'due to the risk of further incitement of violence'.
In July 2025, Paramount, the parent company of CBS, agreed to pay $16 million towards Trump's presidential library as part of a settlement or to charitable causes of his choosing, rather than straight into his pockets.
Trump filed a suit regarding an interview the network broadcast on CBS with former Vice-President Kamala Harris.
In Sanders' tweet, he said the president was awarded $36 million from CBS. This is likely to be in reference to the $16 million payout from Paramount and the rumoured $20 million 'gift' from the network.
As per The Guardian, Trump said that the future owner of the US TV network CBS, David Ellison, will provide him with $20,000,000 worth of advertising and programming.
This is what kleptocracy looks like.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) October 22, 2025
In 2025, Donald Trump has received:
$3 billion: mostly from crypto
$940 million: law firms
$400 million plane: Qatar
$36 million: CBS
$25 million: Meta
$24 million: YouTube
$16 million: ABC
$10 million: X
Now $230 million from DOJ?
Aside from already making a substantial amount of money this year in settlements, Trump now was $230 million from his very own Department of Justice, The New York Times reported on October 21.
Trump reportedly wants the money as a means of compensation for the federal investigations into him.
According to the news outlet, the settlement may be approved by senior department officials who have previously defended him and those close to the president.
UNILAD has contacted the White House for comment.
