In July 2025, as U.S. President Donald Trump met with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a visit to Scotland, a claim (archived) circulated online that a protester holding a sign reading "Trump is a c***" appeared behind the pair during the meeting.
A video (archived) allegedly showing the incident had more than 1 million views on Facebook at the time of this writing.
However, the video that appeared in the posts misleadingly combined two unrelated pieces of media. As a result, we've rated it fake.
The video of Trump and Starmer was real, meaning not generated by artificial intelligence, and showed the two leaders meeting in 2025. The image of the "protester" in the background also was real, but it was years older.
Godley died (archived) in November 2024, months before Trump visited Scotland in July 2025, meaning she could not have been present during that meeting.
In addition to the social media video showing a protest that happened almost 10 years earlier, the White House livestream of the meeting between Trump and Starmer showed no protester in the background.
Snopes previously fact-checked other moments from Trump's July 2025 Scotland visit, including whether a Scottish newspaper called Trump a "convicted US felon" and whether a video authentically showed the president cheating at golf.