{"id":27491,"date":"2025-07-27T08:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/27491\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T08:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:59:15","slug":"trump-back-on-the-golf-course-for-day-two-of-scottish-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/27491\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump back on the golf course for day two of Scottish visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753147568_960_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/e02e0920-6a1b-11f0-b6f8-dbb4bbf920ec.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"EPA Donald Trump waves a white-gloved hand as he walks on his Turnberry golf course. He is waring a black jumper and a white USA hat\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>EPA<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump will play his second round of golf at Turnberry this weekend<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Donald Trump will spend the second full day of his visit to Scotland back on the golf course before meeting the EU Commission president for trade talks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The US president will again play a round at Turnberry in South Ayrshire with guests and family, including his son Eric.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It is believed his only major business meeting will be with Ursula von der Leyen\u202c, who has said they will discuss &#8220;transatlantic trade relations, and how we can keep them strong&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Trump is due to meet UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Scotland&#8217;s First Minister John Swinney on Monday, as well as opening a second 18-hole course at his estate in Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The president arrived in Scotland on Friday evening, with Air Force One touching down at Glasgow Prestwick Airport before his entourage travelled to nearby Turnberry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He has said he &#8220;it&#8217;s great to be in Scotland&#8221; and has praised Starmer and Swinney ahead of meeting them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A major security operation was ramped up at Turnberry before Trump played 18 holes on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He waved to photographers and the assembled media as his day passed without incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Several roads remain closed in the area while police and military personnel have been carrying out checks around the resort.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753147568_960_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/da39ce70-6a1e-11f0-b6f8-dbb4bbf920ec.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Getty Images A woman with blonde hair is wearing glasses, a blue jacket and white top\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Ursula von der Leyen is expected to meet President Trump<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A security checkpoint has been put in place outside the hotel and a large fence has been erected around the course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Elsewhere, several hundred demonstrators gathered in both Aberdeen and Edinburgh on Saturday to protest against the visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Trump is expected to meet Starmer and Swinney on Monday before officially opening his new golf course at Menie in Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The US president will travel back to Washington on Tuesday and is due to return to the UK for an official state visit in September.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753147568_960_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/46ea0e40-6a1f-11f0-b6f8-dbb4bbf920ec.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Reuters Two golfers and two caddies on a green\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Trump enjoyed a day on the Turnberry fairways and greens on Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EPA Donald Trump will play his second round of golf at Turnberry this weekend Donald Trump will spend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-27491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27491","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=27491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}