President Donald Trump spent part of the U.S. Labor Day holiday on Monday, September 7, 2026, sharing a deceptively edited video of King Charles III with his followers on Truth Social — a montage built to present the British monarch as unmoved by a worker who collapsed in front of him.
In the version the 80-year-old president posted, a man faints beside Charles, the king appears to shrug, throw his hands in the air and walk off without helping, and the clip moves on. The unedited footage shows nearly the opposite.
The montage is built as a contrast: other world leaders appear to behave badly, then the video cuts to scene after scene of Trump with police officers, veterans and the families of fallen service members. The president shared it on Truth Social, his own platform, during a burst of holiday posting.
What the Full Footage Shows
The moment came in July 2020, at an Asda supermarket distribution center in Bristol, England, a site that played a key role in the supply chain as the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. Charles, then the Prince of Wales, was there to thank staff who had kept the country’s food supplies moving. He was accompanied by his wife, Camilla — then the Duchess of Cornwall, now the queen.
One worker who was speaking with Charles began swaying on his feet before collapsing backward. Charles, who was 71, reached out to try to stop the man from falling and then stayed close by, visibly concerned, as the worker received medical attention. The worker recovered quickly and resumed the conversation soon afterward, and Charles was photographed later in the visit speaking with the same man. None of that survives in the cut Trump shared, which leaves the king seemingly walking away.
A Reel of World Leaders
The three-minute video opens not with Charles but with French President Emmanuel Macron, 48, at the Élysée Palace, where a ceremonial guardsman appears to collapse behind him during hot weather in June 2023. Macron appears not to notice and walks past.
From there the montage turns to former President Joe Biden, 83, glancing down at his wrist at a dignified transfer ceremony for U.S. service members killed in the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. That footage was in fact shot once every casket had already been loaded and taken away from the tarmac. Former President Barack Obama follows, stepping off the Marine One helicopter in 2014 and saluting 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 doctored video leans entirely on contrast — figures who seem unbothered, then a president who seems engaged. Footage shows Trump greeting police officers with handshakes, embracing military veterans and holding out a chair for Melania Trump, along with retrieving a U.S. Marine’s fallen cap, offering a salute at a repatriation ceremony and consoling 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 Charles portion contains the video’s starkest deletion. Cut from the sequence is the stretch in which the king remains at the side of the stricken worker, leaving the clip to conclude on what looks like a shrug and an exit.
The post is at odds with the friendliness Trump has typically extended to the monarch. He hosted Charles during the state visit the king and queen made in April and has often talked up their strong rapport. As that visit drew to a close, he called Charles “the greatest king in my book.”
Whether the president watched the full footage before sharing it is not known. 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 returned to speak with him before the visit ended.