King Charles III and Queen Camilla recently completed a four-day U.S. state visit to Washington, D.C., and New York. Highlights included tea with President Trump, an address to Congress, and a 9/11 memorial visit. Our analysts rated media coverage about the visit in our Topic of the Week.

CBS News reported on the highlights of the royal visit to D.C. in an article on its website. The article includes photos and information about King Charles gifting a WWII-era submarine bell to Trump, the state dinner, the king’s address to Congress, the welcome ceremony, and a visit to the Oval Office. Analysts found the reporting to be “simple fact reporting” with a “middle/balanced” bias.

An article from USA Today was found to be “analysis,” as it asks the question, “Will King Charles’ visit clear tensions in US-UK friendship?” The article, written by three staff correspondents, describes the events featuring King Charles and Trump but says “there remained subtle signs of the deep divisions that have become the most serious test in decades for the long friendship between the United States and the United Kingdom.” The article quotes British and American analysts who speculate on the effect of the royal visit on the U.S.-Britain relationship. Because of light criticism of Trump, the article received a bias rating of “skews left.”

Analysts classified three pieces of content in our set as “opinion”: articles from American Greatness and The Guardian, and a video from the Trish Regan YouTube channel.

In the article from American Greatness, the author, Raw Egg Nationalist, who is known as a British far-right influencer, discusses the past and current relationship between the U.S. and the U.K, including Trump’s criticism of Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The author applauds Trump’s comments that “appeal to America’s deep roots”: ”Trump came the closest of any modern president to directly repudiating the notion of America as an idea and to reasserting a biological—yes, an ethnic—grounding to American nationhood.” It praises Trump’s “commitment to a political revolution…: a full turn of the wheel, right back to the beginning. The closest thing America has had to a Second Founding.” Because of the article’s “effusive praise of Trump,” analysts gave the article a bias rating of “hyper-partisan right.”

An opinion piece from the London-based The Guardian proclaims in the headline: “The king went to Washington to save Britain’s bacon. He may also have shown the U.S. how to save itself.” The author, Simon Tisdall, describes Trump’s “reign” as a “pseudo-king” as full of “traumas and tantrums”: a president “who actively undermines the democratic values and laws rebellious colonists fought to uphold 250 years ago and upon which the U.S. constitution – and U.S. legitimacy in the world – rests.” He says King Charles gave a “ballsy performance” when addressing Congress and “may have succeeded in temporarily easing U.S.-U.K. frictions. But his bigger achievement was to remind Americans, ever so gently, of who they are, where they come from, and how very much better they could and should be doing.” Because of the frequent criticism of Trump, the article was found to have a bias of “hyper-partisan left.”

In the Trish Regan YouTube video, the host focuses on one part of the king’s speech to Congress: “King Charles came all the way over here and he said … you guys got to stay in NATO.” Regan expresses support for previous comments by Trump that the U.S. should leave NATO: “…England, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, the rest of you are all very, very, very self-sufficient at this point. We shouldn’t have to bankroll you. We shouldn’t have to pay for your defense.” She notes that European countries “are nowhere” and won’t help the U.S. with the Persian Gulf, so “you’re on your own.” The video includes a clip of hosts from ABC’s “The View” commenting on King Charles’ visit. Because of Regan’s support of the U.S. pulling out of NATO, analysts gave the video a bias rating of “hyper-partisan right.”

The lowest-rated reporting from our content set came from a video on the Harry Sisson YouTube channel. In it, the host shows clips of King Charles’ address to Congress, noting that his comments about the system of checks and balances, the environment, the importance of NATO, and showing respect for people of different faiths were “very clear shots” at President Trump and his administration. Sisson supports the king’s comments, calling them “incredibly powerful,” and he mocks the “oblivious” Republicans and Trump officials in attendance who applauded the king’s words even though they were critical of their own actions and policies. Analysts found that the video insults Trump and his supporters by saying that they didn’t understand that the king’s comments were “quite contradictory to what Donald Trump advocates for on a daily basis.” The video was rated as “unfair persuasion” with a “hyper-partisan left” bias.

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Beth Heldebrandt is Director of Communications at Ad Fontes Media. She has more than 35 years of experience in the fields of journalism and public relations, and was an adjunct instructor of journalism for 17 years at Eastern Illinois University. Beth has a B.A. in journalism from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and an M.A. in English from Eastern Illinois University. She’s a mom and grandma, and enjoys traveling, puzzles and reading.