THE FAMILY BEGGED PEOPLE TO STOP SHARING — HIS 13M FOLLOWERS SAW IT ANYWAY

William Chapman's family issued a plea for people to stop sharing footage of his fatal tiger attack at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, saying the publication and circulation of deeply offensive media content was causing severe distress at an exceptionally vulnerable time. UK police made the same request not to share distressing footage.

President Donald Trump nevertheless shared a clip of the incident on Truth Social on Tuesday afternoon to his 13 million followers, captioning it Don't ever mess with nature! He followed it with a montage of animal attacks and a third, AI-generated clip of himself grappling with and taming a tiger, set to The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Chapman, 23, was pronounced dead at the scene after entering the enclosure on Saturday.