Left – Edited footage of King Charles featured in Trump’s post on Truth Social (@realDonaldTrump) Right – Full footage of King Charles shared by The Royal Family Channel on YouTube
Captions include “the people’s president” and “the side of Trump the media doesn’t show you”, while Christina Perri’s A Thousand Years plays throughout. The full recording shared on YouTube by The Royal Family Channel continues beyond that point, according to the BBC. Contemporary reports said he continued with the visit after being told the worker appeared to be coming round.
The montage contrasts clips involving the other figures with footage of Trump. One scene shows Trump picking up a US Marine’s cap, while another shows him giving a salute at a repatriation ceremony, while other footage features him embracing veterans, greeting law-enforcement officers and comforting relatives of fallen service members. Charles reaches towards the employee as he starts to fall and remains nearby while others attend to him in the full video. The employee recovered quickly and later resumed his conversation with Charles. Neither that later interaction nor the period in which Charles stayed close while the man was assisted appears in Trump’s version. Former US president Barack Obama is shown stepping away from Marine One with a paper cup in one hand and raising the other in salute towards US Marines, while former US president Joe Biden appears in footage from a military repatriation ceremony, where the clip captures him briefly looking down towards his wrist. French President Emmanuel Macron is shown at the Elysee Palace as a ceremonial guardsman behind him appears to lose balance and fall, while Macron remains in the foreground.