Claim

Trump earned $80 million in one year from media settlements, i.e., by suing media organizations that ran stories about him and then settling.

“मीडिया सेटलमेंट से एक साल में राष्ट्रपति ट्रंप ने 80 मिलियन डॉलर कमाए हैं। यानी जिन मीडिया संस्थानों ने राष्ट्रपति ट्रंप को लेकर खबरें चलाई थी उन पर मुकदमे करके उन्होंने 80 मिलियन कमा लिए”

Rationale

The dollar figure and timeframe are essentially correct: Trump's 2025 financial disclosure listed about $86.5 million from settlements with companies he had sued during a single year, so '$80 million in one year' is an accurate (slightly rounded-down) approximation. The claim is minorly imprecise in framing all of it as 'media organizations that ran stories about him' — while ABC ($15M) and CBS/Paramount ($16M) were defamation/editing suits tied to coverage, the larger portion ($54.5M from Meta, YouTube and Twitter) settled his suits over account suspensions after Jan 6, not over stories. The headline figure and the core assertion (he earned ~$80M by suing and settling with media/tech companies) hold up.

Evidence

• https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-media-tech-settlements-defamation-lawsuits-86-million Trump's 2025 U.S. Office of Government Ethics financial disclosure reported roughly $86.5 million earned from legal settlements with media and tech companies he had sued — in line with (and slightly above) the '$80 million in one year' claim. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trumps-2b-income-in-2025-raises-fresh-questions-about-profiting-off-presidency PBS coverage of the same 2025 financial disclosure confirming tens of millions in settlement income from lawsuits against media/tech firms during the disclosure year. ✗ unreachable · HTTP 202
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump Documents the individual settlements: ABC/Disney $15M, Paramount/CBS $16M, Meta ~$25M, YouTube $22M, Twitter $8M, totaling roughly $86M. ✓ reachable · archived