On September 7, 2026, with the U.S. marking the Labor Day holiday, President Donald Trump pushed a deceptively edited video of King Charles III out to his Truth Social followers — a montage cut to make the British monarch look unmoved by a worker who collapsed in front of him.
In the clip the 80-year-old president posted, a man faints next to Charles, the king seems to shrug, throw his hands in the air and walk off without helping, and the montage moves on. The unedited footage points nearly the other way.
Contrast drives the whole thing: world leaders appearing to behave badly, then scene after scene of Trump with police officers, veterans and the families of fallen service members. Truth Social, the president’s own platform, carried the post amid a burst of holiday output from him.
What the Full 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. Charles, then the Prince of Wales, had come to thank staff who had kept the country’s food supplies moving. His wife, Camilla — then the Duchess of Cornwall, now the queen — was with him.
A worker talking with Charles began to sway on his feet, then fell backward. Charles, who was 71, reached out to try to stop the man from falling. He then stayed close by, visibly concerned, as the worker received medical attention. “Dear, oh dear,” he said as the man went down. 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,” and the same footage shows him meeting Charles again minutes later. Trump’s cut keeps none of it, ending instead on the king seemingly walking away.
A Reel of World Leaders
The three-minute video opens with French President Emmanuel Macron, 48, rather than Charles. At the Élysée Palace on June 9, 2023, as Macron welcomed Madagascar’s president, a Republican Guard member collapses behind him in the Paris heat. Macron appears not to notice and walks past.
Former President Joe Biden, 83, appears next, his eyes on his wrist during the dignified transfer at Dover on August 29, 2021, for the 13 service members killed in the Kabul airport attack. A common defense of that moment — that he looked at his watch only once the caskets had been carried from the tarmac — falls apart: USA Today corrected its own fact-check to say he checked it “multiple times at the dignified transfer event, including during the ceremony itself,” and an Associated Press photographer also caught two watch-checks 10 minutes apart. Snopes did find one claim unsupported — that he looked 13 times, once for each casket. Former President Barack Obama comes after that, saluting two U.S. Marines with a takeout paper coffee cup still in the same hand as he stepped off the Marine One helicopter in New York on September 23, 2014 — the so-called “Latte Salute,” which conservative commentators denounced loudly at the time.
The Trump Half of the Montage
Trump greets police officers with handshakes, embraces military veterans and holds out a chair for Melania Trump. He also retrieves a U.S. Marine’s fallen cap, offers a salute at a repatriation ceremony and consoles relatives of service members who had died — the engaged half of a doctored video that rests entirely on figures who seem unbothered.
Text stamped over the clips tells viewers they are seeing “the side of Trump the media doesn’t show you” and bills him as “the people’s president.” Christina Perri’s “A Thousand Years” plays as the soundtrack from start to finish.
The Charles portion carries the video’s starkest deletion. Editors excised every second of the king standing beside the fallen worker, so the sequence ends on what viewers read as a shrug followed by a walk-off.
Trump has typically extended friendliness to the monarch, which leaves the post at odds with his own record. Charles and Camilla were his guests for a state visit from April 27 to 30, and their rapport is something he has often talked up. Seeing them off at the South Portico on April 30, he called Charles “a great king. The greatest king in my book.”
No reporting has identified who assembled the montage, and nobody knows whether the president viewed the complete footage before he shared it. The record the clip distorts is well 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 met him again before the visit ended.
