President Donald Trump marked part of the U.S. Labor Day holiday on September 7, 2026, by pushing out to his Truth Social followers a deceptively edited video of King Charles III — a montage assembled to make the British monarch look indifferent to a worker who collapsed in front of him.
In the cut the 80-year-old president shared, a man faints next to Charles, the king seems to shrug, throw his hands in the air and leave without helping, and the video moves along. The unedited footage tells nearly the opposite story.
The reel is structured as a juxtaposition: world leaders who appear to behave badly, then one scene after another of Trump with police officers, veterans and the families of fallen service members. He posted it on Truth Social, his own platform, during a burst of holiday posting.
What the Full Footage Shows
The encounter dates to July 9, 2020, at an Asda supermarket distribution center in Bristol, England — a warehouse whose role in the country’s supply chain turned critical as the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. Charles, then the Prince of Wales, had come to thank staff for keeping food moving to shoppers. With him was his wife, Camilla — then the Duchess of Cornwall, now the queen.
A worker who had been talking with Charles began to sway, then toppled backward. Charles, who was 71, grabbed for him in an effort to break the fall, then stayed close, plainly worried, while the man was given medical attention. “Dear, oh dear,” he said as the worker went down. Asda said afterward that the man “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 video captures him greeting Charles again minutes afterward. None of it appears in the version Trump shared, which leaves the king seemingly walking away.
A Reel of World Leaders
Charles is not where the three-minute video begins. It opens instead on French President Emmanuel Macron, 48, at the Élysée Palace on June 9, 2023, welcoming Madagascar’s president as a Republican Guard member collapses behind him in the Paris heat. Macron appears not to notice, and he walks past.
Next in the montage is former President Joe Biden, 83, looking down at his wrist at the Dover dignified transfer on August 29, 2021, for the 13 service members killed in the Kabul airport attack. The usual rebuttal holds that he checked the time only once the caskets had been carried from the tarmac, and it does not stand up: 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 captured two watch-checks 10 minutes apart. Snopes did find one claim unsupported — that he looked 13 times, once for each casket. Then comes former President Barack Obama, who stepped off the Marine One helicopter in New York on September 23, 2014, and saluted two U.S. Marines while holding a takeout paper coffee cup in the same hand — the so-called “Latte Salute,” a gesture that drew loud outrage from conservative commentators at the time.
The Trump Half of the Montage
The rest of the doctored video answers those clips with Trump himself, shown as a president who seems engaged: shaking hands with police officers, embracing military veterans and holding out a chair for Melania Trump, as well as retrieving a U.S. Marine’s fallen cap, saluting at a repatriation ceremony and consoling relatives of service members who had died.
Overlaid text 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 Charles sequence carries the video’s starkest deletion. Gone from it is the stretch in which the king remains at the side of the stricken worker, which leaves the clip to end on what looks like a shrug and an exit.
Trump has generally been warm toward the monarch, which makes the post a jarring turn. He hosted Charles and Camilla for a state visit from April 27 to 30 and has frequently talked up their rapport. At the South Portico farewell on April 30, he called Charles “a great king. The greatest king in my book.”
Nobody has reported who assembled the montage, and whether the president watched the full footage before sharing it is not known. What the clip distorts is well documented: in the earliest, most uncertain months of the pandemic, a 71-year-old Charles reached for a warehouse worker as he fell, waited nearby while the man was treated, and met him again before the visit ended.
