The American president must arrive shortly after 7:00 p.m. GMT in Turnberry, one of his two golf complexes where he will stay. His official agenda is empty for Saturday and Sunday.
Donald Trump flies away on Friday for Scotland, where he will spend an extended weekend mixing diplomacy with golf, a sport of which he is keen and which is also an investment field for the family business led by his sons. The American president must arrive shortly after 7:00 p.m. GMT in Turnberry, one of his two golf complexes where he will stay. His official agenda is empty for Saturday and Sunday.
Before leaving for Washington, he will tear up the Greens for a meeting, whose details are not known, with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The latter is not deemed to be keen on golf as the 79 -year -old Republican and he will have other concerns in mind anyway.
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The United States and the United Kingdom announced in May a trade agreement, but London is concerned about the will expressed by Donald Trump of the “Refine”. The British leader, who has so far succeeded in preventing his country with exorbitant customs duties, will seek to stay in the small papers of the unpredictable American president. The latter will also return to the United Kingdom in September, for a state visit to the invitation of King Charles III promisingly.
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Demonstrations scheduled for Saturday
In Scotland, Donald Trump will be from a distance, at least geographically, twists and turns of the very embarrassing case Jeffrey Epstein, a rich financier accused of sexual crimes and died in prison in 2019 before being tried. Some supporters of the president accuse him of lacking transparency about this former figure of the New York jet set, with which he himself had a friendly relationship and which has become the symbol for a whole fringe of the movement «MAGA» turpitudes of a protected elite.
The Wall Street Journal, for having published an article on the links between Donald Trump and the sex offender, was also deprived of his seat on the Air Force One plane during the trip. Donald Trump had provided during a previous visit in 2023, to feel “at home” In Scotland where her mother, Mary Anne Macleod, grew up before emigrating at 18 in the United States.
His affection is not necessarily reciprocal: demonstrations are scheduled for Saturday in Edinburgh and Aberdeen to protest against his arrival, and an important police device will be deployed. The construction of a new course by the group today led by the sons of the president aroused dissatisfaction in Balmedie, Aberdeeshire, on the part of certain residents and elected environmentalists.
