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.

On Monday, a court filing revealed that Alphabet, YouTube’s parent company, agreed to pay a total of $24.5 million to settle Trump’s lawsuit alleging “censorship” over YouTube’s suspension of his channel following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. YouTube had determined he violated the site’s policy against inciting violence.

The image Trump posted Monday evening shows a sheepish-looking man wearing a gray hoodie (perhaps meant to be YouTube CEO Neal Mohan) holding a check made out to “Donald J. Trump” for $24.5 million with a memo line that says “Settlement for

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