YouTube has temporarily blocked Donald Trump from uploading new content to his channel, becoming the latest in a long line of social media companies stopping the president from using its platforms.
YouTube took the action on Tuesday night after Trump posted a video to its site which violated their policies.
It was not clear what the video showed, and YouTube refused to say.
Several videos were uploaded to President Trump's YouTube account earlier on Tuesday - all of them from his visit to Texas, addressing issues ranging from the border wall to law enforcement to the events of last week.
They said the temporary block, lasting seven days, was as a result of the 'first strike'.
If a channel receives a second strike within 90 days it will be suspended for two weeks; a third strike results in a permanent ban.
'After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump's channel for violating our policies,' the company said.
'It now has its 1st strike & is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a *minimum* of 7 days.'
In addition, comments were permanently disabled under his videos.
'Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump's channel, as we've done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section,' they said.
YouTube's action came after the president's accounts were shut down by Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch and others citing the risk of inciting violence from his posts.
The moves were made following his incendiary rhetoric encouraging and supporting the insurrectionist mob that occupied the U.S. Capitol on January 6 in a deadly clash with police.
Last Wednesday, YouTube removed Trump's video post to rioters in which the president told them to 'go home' and said that 'We love you, you're very special.'
Eric Trump, the president's son, on Tuesday said that his father was a victim of 'cancel culture', but the social media giants insist their actions are necessary to prevent further bloodshed.
On Monday Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer, said they had no plans to lift Trump's ban from their platform. He will remain cut off until at least the inauguration, and likely beyond.
YouTube has been taking down content since Wednesday's violent unrest, which cost the lives of four rioters and a member of the Capitol Police.
The YouTube account for Steve Bannon's War Room podcast was taken down Friday for violating the platform's Terms of Service.
A Friday evening search for the podcast brought up an error message reading: 'This page isn't available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.'
YouTube had warned earlier in the week that it would ban accounts that continued to spread misinformation about voter fraud.
Giuliani, Donald Trump's personal attorney and the man who spearheaded his failed legal battle to overturn the presidential election, appeared on the show earlier Friday where he defended Wednesday's rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol.
He pointed the blame for the attack, which sent lawmakers fleeing for their lives, on 'the fascists now running the Democrat Party'.
He also continued to push unfounded claims of voter fraud despite Trump's own administration saying the election was legally conducted and done fairly and Congress certifying the Electoral College votes in the early hours of Thursday.
'Most of them hadn't come there with implements to do it and also led on by people from, you know, groups that are experts at it. Believe me, Trump people were not scaling the wall. So there's nothing to it that he incited anything,' said Giuliani of the rioters, who senior Democrats have labeled 'domestic terrorists'.
Instead, Giuliani pointed the blame to the Democrats who he said 'imposed censorship' on Trump's supporters. He did not back up this claim with any reasoning.
'And also there's equal if not more responsibility on the fascists who now running the Democrat Party, who have imposed censorship on these people, who have been singling them out for unfair treatment since the IRS started going after conservative groups,' he said.
'The media may deny it, but those people know it. They know their freedom of religion is being taken away. They know their freedom of speech is virtually decimated.'
'Most of them hadn't come there with implements to do it and also led on by people from, you know, groups that are experts at it. Believe me, Trump people were not scaling the wall. So there's nothing to it that he incited anything,' said Giuliani of the rioters, who senior Democrats have labeled 'domestic terrorists'.
Instead, Giuliani pointed the blame to the Democrats who he said 'imposed censorship' on Trump's supporters. He did not back up this claim with any reasoning.
'And also there's equal if not more responsibility on the fascists who now running the Democrat Party, who have imposed censorship on these people, who have been singling them out for unfair treatment since the IRS started going after conservative groups,' he said.
'The media may deny it, but those people know it. They know their freedom of religion is being taken away. They know their freedom of speech is virtually decimated.'
Giuliani's defense of the mob that desecrated the US Capitol and his denial of Trump's role in egging it on comes as the Washington DC Attorney General suggested the former New York City mayor could also be investigated for inciting Wednesday's violence.
Less than two hours before hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the capitol Wednesday, Giuliani took to the stage at Trump's rally and urged demonstrators to pursue a 'trial by combat'.
DC AG Karl Racine told Good Morning America his office was investigating who was behind Wednesday's attack - both the perpetrators on the ground and those who encouraged them.
'The real question is how far up does it go? Clearly the Capitol was ground central in all of this mob's behavior,' he said.
'Donald Trump Jr, Giuliani, even the president of the United States were calling on their supporters and hate groups to go to the Capitol and in the words of Rudy Giuliani 'exercise combat justice'.
'We're going to investigate not only the mobsters but also those who invited the violence,' he said.
On Friday night, Twitter announced it had permanently banned Trump's account due to the risk of 'further incitement to violence'.
'After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,' the company wrote.
Earlier on Friday, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and attorney Sidney Powell - two Trump loyalists - were also permanently banned by Twitter.
Discord also announced Friday that it had banned the server The Donald which was connected the TheDonald dot Win and the Donald subreddit.
Facebook and Instagram had already banned the president's account 'at least' until his term is over on January 20, if not indefinitely.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
