However, climate campaigners have been highly critical. Environmental pressure group Uplift desrcibed Trump’s demand for more drilling as “pure fantasy”.
Uplift’s executive director Tessa Khan, said: “New drilling won’t cut bills and, after 50 years of extraction, the basin is fast running out of gas – that’s geology not a political choice.
“Trump’s knowledge of the North Sea is limited to his view from his golf course, so let’s not listen to him when it comes to how we power our country.”
This view was supported by many of the protestors in Aberdeenshire who staged a demonstration outside the extensive police cordon around Mr Trump’s Menie estate.
They had complaints about the cost of security for the visit. And they criticised US policy on topics ranging from abortion to immigration.
Campiagner Esme Houston from Aberdeen said: “We’re here to tell Trump to leave, bluntly. We’re not very happy with his persence in our city and in our country.
Another protester, Hannah, said: “It’s important to stand up for what we, as Scotland, believe in. What he’s done to this community with his golf course is unacceptable.”
“There’s issues with the environment. The community was promised things that weren’t delivered. People were forced from their homes.”