The video site said Mr Trump's "Donald J. Trump"
channel would be "prevented from uploading new videos or livestreams for
an additional minimum of seven days".
YouTube had last week suspended the channel and said it was
removing a video which had violated its policy on inciting violence, coming in
the wake of the riots in the Capitol.
It followed other social media platforms taking similar
moves, with Trump unable to post on Facebook and Twitter.
YouTube said it has extended a block on Donald Trump's account
on the video site for at least another week, stopping him from being able to
upload videos amid concerns over the "ongoing potential for
violence".
YouTube decided to suspend the account last week in the wake
of the deadly Capitol riots, and took down a video it said violated its policy
for inciting violence. At the time the video site said the suspension would be
in place for a minimum of seven days, potentially allowing it to be opened up
again on the eve of President-elect Joe Biden's inaugeration.
However, Google-owned YouTube said it had since decided that
"the Donald J. Trump channel will be prevented from uploading new videos
or livestreams for an additional minimum of seven days".
It is not the only social media site that has kept Trump
offline, with Facebook and Snapchat also putting blocks in place, whilst
Twitter has banned Trump.
Trump was impeached by the House for "incitement of
insurrection" over the storming of the US Capitol.
Donald Trump has pardoned the former Google engineer Anthony
Levandowski who was convicted of stealing trade secrets about self-driving
cars.
Levandowski, who had been sentenced to 18 months in prison
last August for downloading Google documents on autonomous vehicles before
briefly joining Uber, was one of more than 140 people granted clemency in
Trump's last hours in office.
The White House said he had "paid a significant price
for his actions and plans to devote his talents to advance the public
good".
It said the pardon was backed by names including high-profile
investor Peter Thiel and Oculus entrepreneur Palmer Luckey.
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