Trump is resting from world affairs to make his Scottish golf courses

Donald Trump flies in Scotland later to visit two resorts for golf, which he owns in the country where his mother was born.

He will travel to Turnberry in southern Irshire, a world -class place he bought in 2014, and to Meni in Aberdeshire to open a new course with 18 holes.

The White House says Trump will also meet with Prime Minister Sir Kayer Starmer to discuss trade while in the UK.

Traveling is exceptional because American presidents rarely encourage their personal interests so publicly while in office.

Is not the first time when Trump is accused of confusing his own affairs With the nation.

However, with gas and Ukraine in flames, the dollar of the rink and questions covering his connections with condemned pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Trump’s decision to focus on golf lifted his eyebrows.

I witnessed Trump’s unconventional first -hand attitude at the beginning of his political career when I met him on the 2015 campaign path. Republicans were looking for a candidate who could win the presidency after Barack Obama’s two terms.

Trump gave up the debate scene at a brilliant hotel in Las Vegas and in a room full of cameras.

Jostling for a position, I asked the man with a long red tie a few questions, and after boasting about my frontrunner status in the race, he told me there was a message about the United Kingdom.

That will make news, I thought. Maybe something about immigration, the topic of Trump’s signature campaign?

It wasn’t. Instead, Trump wanted BBC viewers to know that he had several fine golf courses on the shore of Scotland that they should visit.

The answer confronted me as remarkable to a person who seeks to become the so -called leader of the free world.

Of course, Trump has a real relationship with Scotland.

His gels -speaking mother Mary Ann McLeodwas born in 1912 on Lewis Island in the external hebrides of Scotland and left during the Great Depression to New York, where she married the property entrepreneur Fred Trump.

The return of their son to Scotland for four days this summer came before an official state visit in September, when President and first lady Melania Trump will host King Charles at Windsor Castle in Berkshire.

Trump is not planned to see the King in this visit, but he is not entirely private, as he will meet with the first Scotland Minister John Sweey, as well as the Prime Minister.

Business leaders, including Scottish whiskey manufacturers, call on Starmer and Swinney to use their Trump meetings to lobby to reduce US tax reduction on imports known as tariffs.

A huge security operation for weeks has been scaled in recent days.

Giant transport aircraft carrying military hardware, including president helicopters, known when he was aboard the Call Marine One sign, were spotted at Aberdeen and Prestius airports.

The roads and sails in Aberdeenshire and Irshire are secured and closed.

Airspace restrictions have been issued.

Police reinforcements have headed north across the border between England-Skotland.

Visits to Scotland, sitting in American presidents are rare.

Queen Elizabeth hosted Dwight Diezenhower in Balmoral in Aberdeenshire in 1957.S George W Bush is traveling to Gleneagles in Perther for the G8 summit in 2005, and Joe Biden attended a climate conference in Glasgow in 2021.

Thehe Only another president employee to visit this century is Trump himself in 2018. When he was greeted by protesters, including a low -level paraglider flying, disrupting the air shutdown area around the resort.

Even by Donald Trump’s standards, the years have been wild since.

When he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, a crowd of Trump supporters responded to his leader’s false allegations of election fraud, becoming violent against American Capitol.

Four years later, Trump organizes a stunning political return.

He survived in attempted murder While running for the White House and a man, he was accused of trying to kill the then candidate Trump by heading to a rifle through a fence on his golf course in West Palm Beach.

Against the backdrop of this concussion, the security around the president is supposedly stronger than ever.

The US secret service, very criticized for failures that almost cost the president of his life, remains mostly responsible for his safety, but there were concerns about the impact of his visit to police officers and the police budget in Scotland, with a former senior officer estimating the price of police more than £ 5 million.

Adding to the pressure that police are under the attachment of his resorts, large demonstrations are expected to be held against Trump in Aberdeen and Edinburgh.

Police Scotland insists that there are the resources he needs to deal with the visit.

While Polls suggest that Trump is deeply unpopular in the UKHe can actually find some sympathy in Aberdeen, a city that he and many more call the “oil capital of Europe.”

He roused the heated debate about the nature and pace of the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, telling BBC News last week that Aberdeen, who has been prospering for decades since the North Sea drilling, “”You need to get rid of windmills and return the oil.“

The Group of the Environmental Campaign UPLIFT says Trump’s claim that the North Sea can still provide the United Kingdom securely an energy supply “contrary to reality.”

Trump’s message about enchanting Reform UK rhetoric, the right party led by Trump’s fan Nigel Farage fan, which has made progress in recent Scottish elections and hopes to take one step further by winning places for the first time in parliamentary elections next year.

The Scottish Parliament, known as Holyrood, after its location at the foot of the Royal Mile of Edinburgh, manages much of the interior of Scotland, such as healthcare, education and some tax taxes and benefits, while the UK parliament in London retains control over defense, foreign affairs.

Trump’s support for the oil industry is well known, but his hatred of wind turbines seems to work even deeper.

In 2012, he told me that building a wind farm off the shores of his golf course in Meni would be a “terrible mistake” which “would destroy ScotlandS “

This meeting was a strange experience.

At first, Trump’s assistants told us that he was so scared of the difficult questions that was asked by Rona Dugal by StV News earlier that morning that he changed his opinion on talking to the BBC.

It is removed anyway in the rain for hours. In the end, the man himself appeared. After some verbal sparring, he offered us barbecue burgers before we gave up and agree to be interviewed.

Later, requested by a Scottish parliament committee in Edinburgh to provide evidence to support his claim that Scottish tourism will be ruined by wind turbines, Trump known replied, “I am the evidence.”

The wind farm is built anyway and is now clearly visible from the course.

This is not the only battle Trump fought against the background of shifting sand dunes and whispering herbs in men where He has repeatedly encountered locals, politicians and environmentalists For various reasons.

His other course at Turnberry is not controversial, but it is a stage for Tushle with golf authorities, as Trump seems to be angry with the governing body of the Game, R&A, to organize the prestigious open championship there, citing logistical challenges.

Turnberry is home to three golf courses that is said the most expensive to play in the UKand the open was held there four times, but Never since Trump bought it in 2014S

This is another striking example of how, a decade after the installation of what was essentially a hostile ingestion of the US Republican Party, the man who was the 45th and the 47th President of the United States has not yet completely changed business for politics.

He is the most powerful person in the Western world, and yet Donald Trump is still annoyed by being downloaded, still fucking for status, still angry with a deal with golf he has, at least so far, has not been able to close.