President Donald Trump spent part of the U.S. Labor Day holiday on Monday, September 7, 2026, pushing out to his Truth Social followers a deceptively edited video of King Charles III. Editors had stitched the montage together so that the British monarch would appear indifferent to a worker collapsing in front of him.
Here is how the cut the 80-year-old president posted plays: a man faints beside Charles, the king appears to shrug and throw his hands in the air, and the clip moves on as he walks off without helping. Nearly the opposite is what the unedited footage records.
The manipulation was first reported in the press. Contrast is the whole engine of the montage: other world leaders appear to behave badly, and then comes scene after scene of Trump with police officers, veterans and the families of fallen service members. Truth Social, the president’s own platform, carried it as part of a burst of holiday posting.
What the Unedited Footage Shows
An Asda supermarket distribution center in Bristol, England, hosted the scene on July 9, 2020; the site had played a key role in the supply chain as the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. Staff there had kept the country’s food supplies moving, and Charles, then the Prince of Wales, had come to thank them. Accompanying him was his wife, Camilla — then the Duchess of Cornwall, now the queen.
Mid-conversation with Charles, a worker began swaying on his feet and then went over backward. Charles, who was 71, put out an arm to try to catch him, then stayed close by, visibly concerned, while the man received medical attention; his security detail told him the man was all right, and only then did he move away. Asda said afterward that the worker “briefly fainted, but after taking a few minutes to recover himself he returned to continue his tour and reassure everyone he was absolutely fine.” Later footage catches the two men talking and laughing together — and none of that survives in the cut Trump shared, which leaves the king seemingly walking away.
A Reel of World Leaders
Only the Charles segment has been doctored. The three clips around it are genuine, which is what makes the montage work.
The Elysee Palace on June 9, 2023, provides the opening of the nearly three-minute video: French President Emmanuel Macron, 48, welcomes Madagascar’s president Andry Rajoelina while a Republican Guard member collapses behind him in 30-degree Paris heat. Macron did not intervene, and French commentators criticized him for it at the time; protocol leaves the president out of it.
Next in the reel is former President Joe Biden, 83, who glances down at his wrist during the dignified transfer at Dover on August 29, 2021, for the 13 service members killed in the Kabul airport attack. That one happened too. In a correction to its own fact-check, USA Today said he checked his watch “multiple times at the dignified transfer event, including during the ceremony itself,” rather than only after the caskets had been carried from the tarmac. An Associated Press photographer captured two of the checks 10 minutes apart, and the revised version counted at least three in all. Snopes found no support for the sharper version that went round at the time — that he looked 13 times, once for each casket.
Former President Barack Obama appears after that. The Marine One helicopter had set down in New York on September 23, 2014, and he stepped off it saluting two U.S. Marines while a takeout paper coffee cup sat in the same hand — the so-called “Latte Salute.” Conservative commentators directed loud outrage at that gesture at the time, and the clip is exactly what it looks like.
Trump’s Half of the Montage
The video rests entirely on that contrast: figures who seem unbothered, and then a president who seems engaged. Handshakes go to police officers, embraces to military veterans, and Melania Trump gets a chair held out for her by Trump. Other clips show him picking up a U.S. Marine’s fallen cap, saluting at a repatriation ceremony and comforting relatives of service members who had died.
Text stamped over the clips told viewers they were seeing “the side of Trump the media doesn’t show you” and billed him as “the people’s president.” Christina Perri’s “A Thousand Years” runs as the soundtrack from start to finish.
The video’s starkest deletion lands in the Charles segment. Whoever cut it excised the minutes during which the king stays at the fallen worker’s side, and the clip therefore ends on an apparent shrug and a departure.
Trump has typically extended friendliness to the monarch, which makes the post an odd fit. Washington was the setting for the state visit he hosted for Charles and Camilla from April 27 to 30, the king’s first trip to the country as monarch, and he has often talked up their rapport. Standing beside him at the White House farewell on April 30, Trump called Charles “a great king” and “the greatest king in my book.” Four days before posting the video, he told GB News that Charles is “a friend of mine” and “a fantastic guy.”
No one has reported who assembled the montage, and whether the president watched the full footage before sharing it is not known. Neither the palace nor Downing Street has said anything further in the week since, and the post has not been taken down. The record the clip distorts is extensively documented. Charles, then 71 and in the earliest, most uncertain months of the pandemic, reached for a warehouse worker as he fell, waited nearby while the man was treated, and spoke with him again before the visit ended.