{"id":23532,"date":"2025-07-26T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23532\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:13:10","slug":"trump-in-scotland-us-president-on-working-trip-golf-business-bid-for-british-open-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23532\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump in Scotland: US President on ‘working trip’; golf business, bid for British Open and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Trump President Donald Trump has begun his fourth overseas visit of his second term, heading to Scotland, his mother\u2019s birthplace, where he plans to spend several days at his family-owned golf resorts.He is expected to visit the Trump Organization\u2019s two existing Scottish golf courses, in Turnberry and Aberdeenshire, with a third course at the Aberdeenshire site set to open soon.This will be Trump\u2019s second presidential visit to Turnberry, following his first in 2018.In 2020, ABC News reported that then-US Ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson, told colleagues he had been asked by Trump to urge the British government to hold the British Open at Turnberry. While the UK government said no such request was made to Scottish officials, Trump also denied having made the request.Following the January 6 Capitol attack, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, organisers of the world\u2019s oldest golf tournament, the Open, announced it had “no plans” to bring the event back to Turnberry and “will not do so in the foreseeable future.”\u201cWe will not return until we are convinced that the focus will be on the championship, the players and the course itself and we do not believe that is achievable in the current circumstances,\u201d the R&A\u2019s chief executive said in a statement at the time.During a 2023 interview at Turnberry with British politician and media personality Nigel Farage, Trump claimed, \u201cEveryone wants to see the Open Championship here. The players, it’s their favorite course, number one rated in Europe.\u201dMore recently, R&A chair Mark Darbon admitted there are \u201clogistical challenges\u201d to holding the tournament at Turnberry, which last hosted the Open prior to Trump\u2019s purchase of the property in 2014. He also confirmed that the organisation met with Eric Trump and other Trump Golf executives a few months ago to explore the possibility.Earlier this year in May, Trump visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates on his first overseas visit of his second term, aiming to strengthen ties with Gulf nations. His family\u2019s business interests have also expanded in the region, with partnerships on new projects in Saudi Arabia, Doha and the UAE, and involvement in a cryptocurrency venture linked to an Emirati government-affiliated fund.According to his latest financial disclosure, Trump reported hundreds of millions in income from his businesses, including golf clubs and the Mar-a-Lago estate, as well as from products such as watches and fragrances. Despite this, his Aberdeenshire resort reportedly lost \u00a31.4 million last year, per BBC reports.Ethics experts have raised concerns over Trump\u2019s overseas travel, suggesting potential conflicts between his presidential duties and private business.Trump\u2019s assets are placed in a trust overseen by his children, and officials in his administration have repeatedly dismissed claims of any conflict of interest.\u201cAt this point, he\u2019s essentially using the White House as an extension of the Trump Organization and letting the taxpayers pick up the bill,\u201d said Jordan Libowitz, Vice President for Communications at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, speaking to ABC News.The White House described Trump\u2019s trip to Scotland as a \u201cworking trip.\u201d The president is expected to hold a bilateral meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and may address the press during his stay.\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s working trip to Scotland will include a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Starmer to refine the historic US-UK trade deal. Donald J Trump has built the best and most beautiful world-class golf courses anywhere in the world, which is why they continue to be used for prestigious tournaments and by the most elite players in the sport,\u201d said White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers in a statement to ABC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump has begun his fourth overseas visit of his second term, heading to Scotland, his mother\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85,23584,23581,23583,23582,23585],"class_list":["post-23532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-trump-organization","tag-trump-overseas-visit","tag-trump-scotland-golf-resorts","tag-turnberry-golf-course","tag-uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}