{"id":23133,"date":"2025-07-25T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/23133\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:31:13","slug":"live-updates-trump-leaves-for-scotland-to-inaugurate-a-new-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/23133\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump leaves for Scotland to inaugurate a new golf course"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump will travel to Scotland<\/a> on Friday as his family\u2019s business prepares for the Aug. 13 opening of a new golf course in Aberdeenshire billed as \u201cthe greatest 36 holes in golf.\u201d<\/p>\n

While there, Trump will talk trade with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a meeting he\u2019s said will take place at \u201cprobably one of my properties.\u201d<\/p>\n

Using this week\u2019s presidential overseas trip \u2014 with its sprawling entourage of advisers, White House and support staffers, Secret Service agents and reporters \u2014 to help show off Trump-brand golf destinations demonstrates how the president has become increasingly comfortable intermingling his governing pursuits with promoting his family\u2019s business interests.<\/p>\n

Other news we\u2019re following today: <\/p>\n

FCC approves Paramount\u2019s merger with Skydance: The Federal Communications Commission\u2019s approval of the $8 billion merger comes after a lengthy lawsuit between President Trump and Paramount Global<\/a> over a \u201c60 Minutes\u201d story. Paramount agreed this month to pay a $16 million settlement<\/a> to resolve it. CBS stoked further outrage by canceling Stephen Colbert\u2019s \u201cLate Show\u201d<\/a> days after the comedian sharply criticized the settlement on air. The company says it was canceled for financial reasons.Trump signs bill to claw back previously approved funds: Trump has rescinded<\/a> close to $9 billion in federal funding<\/a> previously approved for public broadcasting and foreign aid. The bulk of the cuts were for foreign assistance programs. Approximately $1.1 billion was allocated to help fund NPR and PBS; most of this money is distributed to over 1,500 local public radio and television stations nationwide.U.S. cuts short Gaza ceasefire talks: Trump\u2019s special envoy Steve Witkoff said the U.S. is bringing home its negotiating team<\/a> from Qatar for consultations after the latest response from Hamas \u201cshows a lack of desire to reach a ceasefire in Gaza.\u201d Trump previously urged progress<\/a> in ceasefire talks, and lower-level negotiations have dragged on for weeks, while aid groups say Palestinians in Gaza risk starvation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump will travel to Scotland on Friday as his family\u2019s business prepares for the Aug. 13…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,1376,622,19048,82,19047],"class_list":{"0":"post-23133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-house-republicans","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}