{"id":28228,"date":"2025-07-28T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28228\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:59:08","slug":"can-his-golf-course-further-us-uk-relations-trump-will-use-meeting-with-prime-minister-to-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28228\/","title":{"rendered":"Can his golf course ‘further’ US-UK relations? Trump will use meeting with prime minister to try"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump<\/a> once suggested his golf course in Scotland<\/a> \u201cfurthers\u201d the U.S.-U.K. relationship. <\/p>\n

Now he\u2019s getting the chance to prove it.<\/p>\n

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer<\/a> is meeting Monday with Trump at a golf property owned by the president\u2019s family near Turnberry in southwestern Scotland \u2014 then later traveling to Abderdeen, on the country\u2019s northeast coast, where there\u2019s another Trump golf course and a third is opening soon. <\/p>\n

During his first term in 2019, Trump posted of his Turnberry property, \u201cVery proud of perhaps the greatest golf course anywhere in the world. Also, furthers U.K. relationship!\u201d <\/p>\n

Starmer is not a golfer, but toggling between Trump\u2019s Scottish courses shows the outsized influence the president puts on properties bearing his name \u2014 and on golf\u2019s ability to shape geopolitics<\/a>. <\/p>\n

While China initially responded to Trump\u2019s tariff threats by retaliating with high import taxes<\/a> of its own on U.S. goods but has since begun negotiating easing trade tensions, Starmer and his country have taken a far softer approach. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s gone out of his way to work with Trump, flattering the president repeatedly during a February visit to the White House, and teaming up to announce a joint trade framework<\/a> on tariffs for some key products in May. <\/p>\n

Starmer and Trump then signed<\/a> a trade agreement during the G7 summit in Canada that freed the U.K.’s aerospace sector from U.S. tariffs and used quotas to reduce them on auto-related industries from 25% to 10% while increasing the amount of U.S. beef it pledged to import. <\/p>\n

The prime minister\u2019s office says Monday\u2019s meeting will also touch on Israel\u2019s war with Hamas<\/a> in Gaza, and that it hopes to welcome the Trump administration working with officials in Qatar and Egypt to bring about a ceasefire. <\/p>\n

Starmer plans to stress the urgent need to cease the fighting and work to end starvation and other suffering occurring amid increasingly desperate circumstances in Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also on the agenda, according to Starmer\u2019s office, are efforts to promote a possible peace deal to end fighting in Russia\u2019s war with Ukraine<\/a> \u2014 particularly efforts at forcing Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table in the next 50 days.<\/p>\n

Protesters, meanwhile, have planned a demonstration in Balmedie, near Trump\u2019s existing course, after demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday to decry the president\u2019s visit. <\/p>\n

Discussions with Starmer follow Trump meeting Sunday with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen at his Turnberry course. They announced a trade framework that will put 15% tariffs on most goods from both countries \u2014 though many major details remain pending. <\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Trump will be at the site of his new course near Aberdeen<\/a> for an official ribbon cutting. It opens to the public on Aug. 13 and tee times are already for sale \u2014 with the course betting that a presidential visit can help boost sales. <\/p>\n

There are still lingering U.S.-Britain trade issues that need fine-tuning after the previous agreements, including the tariff rates Washington imposes on steel imported from the U.K.<\/p>\n

Even as some trade details linger and both leaders grapple with increasingly difficult choices in Gaza and Ukraine, however, Starmer\u2019s attempts to stay on Trump\u2019s good side appears to be working. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.K. is very well-protected. You know why? Because I like them \u2014 that\u2019s their ultimate protection,\u201d Trump said during the G7. <\/p>\n

Also likely to improve Trump\u2019s mood is the fact that the U.S. ran an $11.4 billion trade surplus with Britain last year, meaning it exported more to the U.K. than it imported. Census Bureau figures this year indicate that the surplus could grow.<\/p>\n

The president has for months railed against yawning U.S. trade deficits with key allies and sees tariffs as a way to try and close them in hurry. <\/p>\n

Trump is set to return to Britain in September for an unprecedented second state visit<\/a>. Trump will be hosted then by King Charles III<\/a> and Queen Camilla<\/a> at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump once suggested his golf course in Scotland \u201cfurthers\u201d the U.S.-U.K. relationship.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[17508,17510,141,232,5904,14992,11527,1295,7815,420,984,229,17509,1084,101,6942,56,54,14990,55,2988,159,13702,231],"class_list":["post-28228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","tag-auto-industry","tag-donald-trump","tag-general-news","tag-golf","tag-government-and-politics","tag-international-agreements","tag-international-trade","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-keir-starmer","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-politics","tag-rebellions-and-uprisings","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-sports","tag-tariffs-and-global-trade","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-kingdom-government","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}