The 78-year-old commander-in-chief sued the social media company and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg in 2021 after they suspended his accounts on Facebook and Instagram following the Capitol Riots, lifting the final restrictions last summer in the lead up to the US elections.

And now, the Wall Street Journal has revealed they have reached a settlement, with approximately $22 million going to a fund for Trump's presidential library, and the remainder to cover legal costs and other plaintiffs who signed on tot he lawsuit, but Meta will not admit wrongdoing.

The former 'Apprentice' star had been highly critical of Facebook, branding the platform "anti-Trump" in 2017 and the relationship further soured after his accounts were banned, with Trump even branding the social media site an "enemy of the people" in March 2024.

After he won the election in November, Zuckerberg paid a visit to Trump at his Mar-a-Lago base in Florida.

And the following month, Meta donated $1 million to his inauguration fund, and Zuckerberg was a guest at the inauguration ceremony earlier this month, taking a seat alongside other tech billionaires.

Trump was also previously "permanently" suspended from Twitter, but when Elon Musk bought the platform, which he renamed X, for $44 billion in 2022, he ran a poll to see if he should reinstate his account, and allowed him back after the survey narrowly supported the move to do so.