Scotland editor
Donald Trump later flew to visit two golf resorts in Scotland, which he is in the country where his mother was born.
He will travel to Turnberry in South Irshire, which to open a new 18 -ole course to Maini in a world-class site purchased in 2014, and Meni at Aberdeenshire.
The White House says that Trump will also meet the Prime Minister Sir Kir Stmper to discuss the trade during being in Britain.
This journey is extraordinary because the US President rarely promotes his personal interests in public, while in the office.
This is not the first time Trump has been accused of facing his own cases With the nation.
Nevertheless, with Gaza and Ukraine in flames, the dollar on the slide, and their relationship for Pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, the decision to focus on Trump’s golf has raised eyebrows.
I first looked at Trump’s unconventional attitude at the beginning of my political career, when I met him at the campaign mark in 2015, as Republican searched for a candidate who could win the presidential post after two conditions in Barack Obama’s office.
Trump closed the debate at a magnificent Las Vegas Hotel and in a room filled with cameras.
Jostling for the situation, I asked the man some questions with a long red tie and after claiming his position as a fronter in the race, he told me that he had a message to the UK.
This will bring news, I thought. Perhaps something about immigration, Trump’s signature campaign subject?
It was not. Instead, Trump wanted the BBC audience to know that he had some great golf courses on the coasts of Scotland that he should travel.
The answer made me significantly for a person wishing to become the so -called leader of the independent world.
Of course Trump has a real link for Scotland.
Her Gelik speaking mother, Mary Anne McLodIn 1912, the outer Hebrids in Scotland was born on the island of Lewis and left during a great depression to New York, where he married property developer Fred Trump.
His son’s return to Scotland for four days in this summer is ahead of an official state visit in September when the President and the first female Melania Trump will be hosted by King Charles at Windsar Castle, Berkshire.
Trump is not determined to see the king on this journey, but it is not completely private, as he will meet the first minister of Scotland John Swine as well as Prime Minister.
Business leaders, including Scotch whiskey growers, are urged by starrer and swine to use their meetings with Trump, which are to advocate for a reduction in American taxes on imports known as tariffs.
A huge security operation, which has been going on for weeks, has been extended in recent times.
The President’s helicopters, including the huge transport aircraft carrying military hardware, when he is on the board by Sine Marine One, has been seen at Aberdeen and Prestwick Airports.
Roads and streets in Aberdeenshire and Irshire have been secured and closed.
Aerpace sanctions have been issued.
Police reinforcement are moving north on the England-Skotland border.
The journey of American presidents sitting to Scotland is rare.
Queen Elizabeth hosted Dwite de Eisenhwar in 1957 at Balmoral, AberdeenshireGeorge W. Bush traveled to glansals in Partharshire for a G8 summit in 2005; And Joe Biden attended a climate conference in Glasgow in 2021.
To visit this century, only the other serving President himself is Trump himself in 2018. When he met the protesters, which included reducing a paraglider above a turnberry, dissolving the air exclusion area around the resort.
Even Donald has been wild by Trump’s standards.
When he lost the 2020 election to Biden, a mob of Trump supporters responded to his leader’s false claims of electoral fraud by extending a violent attack on the US capital.
Four years later, Trump staged a stunning political return and since returning to the White House He has survived at least one murder attempt While one man has been accused of another.
Between this turmoil, the security around Trump is more tight than ever.
The US Secret Service, a lot of criticism for failures, remains primarily responsible for the safety to the President, but the police has raised concerns about the impact of his visit on Scotland officials and the budget, a former senior official has estimated the cost of policing at more than £ 5m.
Adding the pressure that the police are running to secure their resorts, Aberdeen and Edinburgh are expected to have a large anti -trump demonstration.
Police Scotland Emphasize that it has resources that it needs To deal with the journey.
Whereas Pols suggests that Trump is deeply unpopular in BritainHe can actually find some sympathy in Aberdeen, a city that he and many others call the “oil capital of Europe”.
He has shook the warm debate about the nature and speed of infection from fossil fuel to renewable energy, stating BBC News last week that Aberdeen, which has been rich in North Sea drilling for decades, has said, “Should get rid of windmills and bring back oil.”
Environment Campaign Group Utthan says Trump claims that the North Sea may still provide a safe energy supply to Britain “runs the counter for reality.”
Trump’s Pro-Oil Message made the reform of the UK, the right-wing party led by Trump Fan Nigel Faraj recently progressed in the Scottish by-election and expected to move a step ahead by winning the seats for the first time in the next year’s Scottish parliamentary election.
The Scottish Parliament, known as Holiroad after its location in the leg of Royal Mile, Edinburgh, runs most of the domestic matters in Scotland, such as health, education and some taxation and benefits, while the UK Parliament in London controls defense, foreign affairs and comprehensive economic policy.
Trump’s support for the oil industry is well known, but his hatred towards wind turbines lasts even more depth.
In 2012, he told me that a wind farm is constructed from the banks of his golf course in Maini There will be a “terrible error” that will destroy Scotland,
The encounter was a strange experience.
First, Trump’s colleagues told us that he was very impressed by the difficult questions asked by Rona Dogal of STV News that morning that he had changed his views about talking to the BBC before morning.
We were waiting for hours in the rain. Eventually the man himself emerged. After some oral rare, he offered a barger from a barbecue before returning us and agreed to interview.
Later, a committee of Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh asked that Scottish tourism would be ruined by Pawan Turbines, to provide evidence to support this claim, Trump replied famous: “I am proof.”
Pawan farm was built anyway and now it is clearly visible from the syllabus.
This is not the only battle Trump has fought against the backdrop of grass by transferring sand dunes and whispering grass in the meni. He has repeatedly collided with local residents, politicians and environmentalists For various reasons.
His other courses in Turnberry are not self -controversial, but it is a platform for a quarrel with golfing authorities as Trump’s governing body seems to infiltrate the refusal, R&A, which cites a logical challenge to staging the prestigious open championship.
Turnberry is the home of three golf courses, called Most expensive to play in BritainAnd open there is four times there but Trump did not buy it in 2014 because,
This is another striking example of how, a decade after a decade, the American Republican Party was essentially a hostile acquisition, the person who has been both the 45th and 47th President of the US, has still not traded completely for politics.
He is the most powerful person in the Western world and yet Donald Trump is still being snatched away, still bewildered for the situation, yet anger about a golfing deal, which he has, so far, failed to close.