Trump in Scotland: How is his trip going and what is going on on the agenda? | Donald Trump News

When Donald Trump rewritten the Presidency of the United States in last year’s elections, the news of Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland praised the news with this title: “The southwest of the hotelier of Scotland becomes president of America for the second time”.

This more fun approach – a sign that the inhabitants thought that Trump, who has luxury golf courses in Scotland, a fun – now seems to have bitter.

The national newspaper of the pro-independence of Scotland, welcomed his arrival for a four-day visit this week with the following title: “The American criminal sentenced to arriving in Scotland”.

So why is Trump to visit Scotland, and what happens to the agenda of his trip?

How was Trump received in Scotland?

Trump’s ties with Scotland go back to his mother.

While his father, Fred, was the son of German immigrants, Trump’s mother, Mary Anne Macleod, was an Scottish immigrant in the United States – born in the village of Tong on the island of Lewis.

Trump has established a large part of this connection and his love of Scotland, in general, while making great promises of what its golf courses will do for tourism there.

Friday, he arrived in the small village of Ayrshire of Turnberry, where he left for a golf course, before a meeting with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer for discussions on trade on Monday. Trump Turnberry has two golf championship routes – AILSA (host four times in the open championship) and King Robert Le Bruce.

Turnberry, a small place of around 200 people, may have seemed to be a good place to escape broader problems. Trump still cannot shake speculations, including many in his Maga fans base, about his friendship with the sex offender condemned Jeffrey Epstein.

Last week, the Wall Street Journal said that Trump had sent Epstein a birthday note featuring a naked woman and an SMS who said: “Happy birthday – and that every day is another wonderful secret.”

He reported that a book given to Epstein in 2003 included letters from Trump and Bill Clinton.

Friday, an Scottish journalist shouted in Trump: “Are you in Scotland to escape legal problems?” He did not respond.

Some people also presented themselves to protest against his visit to Scotland on Friday. A Turnberry demonstrator held a sign that said: “Scotland hated Trump before being fashionable.” Other signs of protest were less polite.

Stephen Flynn, a deputy for the Scottish National Party who is notably bald, said that he would not meet Trump because he would be busy “washing his hair”.

Dominic Hinde, an author and journalist based in Glasgow, said: “Scotland does not need Kowtow in the White House in the way Westminster bubble. We can afford to be coarse in a way that Keir Starmer cannot.

Due to this traction and an assassination attempt during its electoral campaign last year, Turnberry became temporary at 5,000 police, army trucks and road control points on Friday. This is the most important and most expensive security operation since the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Trump also plans to visit his golf course in Balmedie, near Aberdeen, as well as a new course that opens in August, during his four -day trip which should end on July 29.

Why are some Scottishness angry with Trump?

A dispute between Trump and the local population began 14 years ago on a wind turbine construction plan which would be visible from its golf course in the Aberdeenshire. He wanted them to stop, calling them “monstrosities” that would only harm tourism. He failed to stop the wind farms, but he remains against wind and solar energy.

During the previous talks, Trump asked Starmer to abandon the wind and go up oil production. He says that offshore wind turbines “make the whales crazy”. But about half of all the electricity in Scotland comes from the wind.

Trump’s golf course in Aberdeenshire has also proved controversial. Conservation groups say that the course destroyed the neighboring dunes. The course also had trouble achieving a profit or employing as many people as expected.

Trump Scotland Stop Trump clearly explained his opposition to him on Friday. He said: “The inhabitants of Scotland do not want to deploy a welcome carpet for Donald Trump, whose government accelerates the spread of climate break in the world.”

What will Trump be talking to the British Prime Minister?

The talks with Keir Starmer will focus on refining an US-UK US trade agreement in June, which established a 10% tariff on British products in the United States.

It has also widened access to American products on the British market and has established prices on the first 100,000 British vehicles exported to the United States each year at 10%, compared to 25% for other countries.

In 2024, the United Kingdom sent around 106,000 cars worth 9 billion pounds (12.1 billion dollars)-including luxury brands such as Jaguar, Rolls Royce and Aston Martin, in the United States, according to automaker and the United Kingdom office for National Statistics (ONS).

The United Kingdom now hopes to have a 25% price on British steel and lowered aluminum, although this is already compared to an obligation of 50% for the rest of the world on the same goods.

Philip Shaw, an economist at Investc in London, said: “The United Kingdom is in relatively good position insofar as Trump increased most of British export prices by only 10% and Great Britain is faced with a 10% tariff on most of its car exports, and not 25% of the other countries are.

Trump said that the United Kingdom is getting a better deal than the other big economies, saying at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in June: “The United Kingdom is very well protected. You know why? Because I like them. It is their ultimate protection.”

Friday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: “It is in the national interest of Great Britain to have solid relations with the American administration and at the same time of this special long-term relationship, but also more important, the work that our Prime Minister Keir Starmer did in the construction of this relationship with President Trump meant that we were the first country in the world to obtain a commercial affair.”

However, Kathleen Brooks, director of research at UK Investment Group XTB, said: “Although the United Kingdom was” blessed “with an early trade agreement, he has not yet helped the economic situation in the United Kingdom.

“The fact that Trump came to Scotland while the EU continues to wait for confirmation of his rate rates with the United States.

Some Trump acolytes have criticized the United Kingdom in general, saying that it lacks freedom of expression and that London has areas “without Go”. It is believed that Starmer raises such questions while he is negotiating on trade.

What could happen else?

Trump should also meet Scottish Prime Minister John Swinney, who has made positive noises, saying: “Scotland shares a solid friendship with the United States dates back centuries. The partnership remains firm through economic, cultural and ancestral ties – including, of course, with the president himself. “

He also undertook to raise problems beyond trade, such as wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

Trump will be back in the United Kingdom for too long, after this visit. A state visit with First Lady Melania is scheduled for September 17, when the president will have to meet King Charles and Queen Camilla at the castle of Windsor.