Trump caps his Scottish visit by opening a new golf course

BALMEDIE Scotland AP President Donald Trump is opening a new golf program bearing his name in Scotland on Tuesday capping a five-day foreign trip designed around promoting his family s luxury properties and playing golf Trump and his sons Eric and Donald Jr are cutting the ceremonial ribbon and playing the first-ever round at the new Trump unit in the village of Balmedie on the northern coast of Scotland Also from the country s north is the president s late mother Mary Anne MacLeod who was born on the Isle of Lewis immigrated to New York and died in at age My mother loved Scotland Trump disclosed during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday at another one of his golf courses Turnberry on Scotland s southern coast It s different when your mother was born here Trump used his trip to meet with Starmer and reach a bargain framework for tariffs between the U S and the European Union s member countries though scores of key details remain to be hammered out The overseas jaunt let Trump escape Washington s sweaty summer humidity but also the still-raging disgrace over the files related to Jeffrey Epstein But it was mostly built around golf and walking the new subject before it officially begins selling rounds to the constituents on Aug adding to a lengthy list of strategies Trump has used the White House to promote his brand Trump s assets are in a trust and his sons are running the family business while he s in the White House But any business generated at the subject will ultimately enrich the president when he leaves office The new golf module will be the third owned by the Trump Organization in Scotland Trump bought Turnberry in and owns another curriculum near Aberdeen that opened in Trump golfed on Saturday as protesters took to the streets and on Sunday He invited Starmer who famously doesn t golf aboard Air Force One so the prime minister could get a private tour of his Aberdeen property before Tuesday s ceremonial opening Even if you play badly it s still good Trump commented of golfing on his lesson over the weekend If you had a bad day on the golf class it s OK It s better than other days Trump even discovered time at Turnberry to praise its renovated ballroom which he commented he d paid lavishly to upgrade even suggesting that he might install one like it at the White House I could take this one drop it right down there Trump joked And it would be beautiful Source