Trump Shares Edited Video That Misrepresents King Charles’ Response to Fainting Worker
US President Donald Trump has shared a misleading video on Truth Social that makes it appear King Charles III walked away from a man who
US President Donald Trump has shared a misleading video on Truth Social that makes it appear King Charles III walked away from a man who fainted during a royal visit. The clip, posted on the US Labor Day holiday, uses edited footage from a 2020 appearance by the then-Prince of Wales at an Asda supermarket distribution centre in Bristol.
The video is part of a montage that tries to cast Trump as a leader who honours troops, veterans and police officers. It opens with clips of other world leaders that appear framed as disrespectful, then cuts to Trump shaking hands with law enforcement, hugging veterans and paying tribute to fallen US service members. Captions over the post describe it as “the side of Trump the media doesn’t show you” and call him “the people’s president.”
What the clip leaves out
The footage of Charles was taken from a longer video recorded in July 2020, when he was still the Prince of Wales and visiting workers during the Covid pandemic. In the full version, the worker begins to sway and collapse, and Charles reaches out as the man falls. The king then stays nearby while the man receives medical attention.
Trump’s post removes that part. What remains is a much harsher-looking sequence, one that gives the impression the royal shrugged and moved on. That edit changes the meaning of the original moment. It does not show Charles standing close by after the fall, which is the key detail in the uncut footage.
A familiar playbook on social media
The post arrived during what one outlet described as a frantic Truth Social spree, and it followed other misleading material Trump has circulated online. The pattern matters. Trump has repeatedly used social media to push edited or selective clips that support his political message, even when the underlying footage tells a different story.
The latest video was designed to contrast Trump’s behaviour with that of foreign leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, while also drawing in former President Joe Biden. But the editing around King Charles stands out because it turns a brief medical episode into an apparent slight by the monarch.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Why the edit landed now
The timing also gave the post extra visibility. Trump shared it on Labor Day, a holiday that in the US is meant to honour workers and, more broadly, the role of labour in public life. That context sharpened the contrast between the message of the montage and the reality of the clip it borrowed.
For an international audience, the episode is another reminder of how quickly digitally altered footage can travel from a political account to millions of viewers, blurring the line between propaganda and documentation. The original Bristol video has now become part of a wider argument over what Trump chooses to show, and what he leaves out.
For now, the edited clip remains online. And so does the unedited record of what happened next: Charles stayed with the worker until medical help arrived.
