Trump concludes the visit of Scotland full of golf opening a new golf course with his name

President Trump opened a new golf course with his name in Scotland on Tuesday, limiting a five -day foreign trip designed to promote his family’s luxury properties and play golf, and agreeing an important framework of commercial agreement with the EU.

“Come on. 1-2-3,” Trump said before cutting the red ribbon.

Trump and his children, Eric and Donald Jr., were also ready to play the first round in Trump’s new course in the town of Balmedie, on the north coast of Scotland.

“This has been incredible development,” said the president before the ceremonial opening. He thanked his son Eric for his work in the project, saying he was “really a job of love for him.”

The excursion abroad allowed Mr. Trump to escape from the sweaty summer humidity of Washington and the ruin still Scandal on the case of Jeffrey Epstein.

It was built mainly around the golf, and walked through the new course before officially begins to offer rounds to the public on August 13, which adds to a long list of ways in which the president has used the White House to promote his brand.

Billing itself the “greatest 36 holes in golf”, Trump’s international golf links, Scotland, were designed by Eric Trump. The course is organizing a PGA people championship event at the end of this week, after Trump leaves. The signs that promote the event had already erected throughout the course before arriving on Tuesday and, on the road, leading, the temporary metal signs guided the drivers to the correct road.

The golfers reach the field at dawn as part of that event had to put their clubs through erected metal detectors as part of safety sweeps before their arrival. Several dozen people, some dressed for golf, including the use of tacos, had filled the sand trap near Tee’s box to see the tape cut ceremony shortly before it began. Another group of people was watching from the other side in high grass that grew in sand dunes flanking the first hole.

Also from northern Scotland is the late mother of the president, Mary Anne Macleod, who was born on the island of Lewis, emigrated to New York and died in 2000 at 88 years.

“My mother loved Scotland,” Trump said during a Meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Monday in another of its golf courses, Turnberry, on the south coast of Scotland. “It’s different when your mother was born here.”

Trump used his trip to meet with Starmer and get to a trade Frame for tariffs between the United States and the 27 member countries of the European Union – Although dozens of key details are to be beaten. But the trip has presented a lot of golf, and having the president’s visit will surely raise the profile of the new course.

Trump’s assets are in a trust, and their children direct the family business while in the White House. However, any business generated in the last instance to the President when he leaves the position.

A press release says that the new course presents the largest natural bunker, dune and green in the world with a sea views, with a “focus on environmental sensitivity.”

Visible from several parts of the new course were imposing wind mills that border the coast, some with blades that showed visible points of oxide. They are part of a nearby wind forest that Trump demanded to block construction in 2013.

He lost that case and was finally ordered to pay the legal costs to bring it, and the problem still enrages it. During the meeting with Starmer, Trump called the wind mills “ugly monsters” and suggested that they were part of “the most expensive energy form.”

“I restricted wind mills in the United States because they also kill all their birds,” said the president. “If you shoot a bald eagle in the United States, they put you in jail for five years. And the windmills knocked out hundreds of them. They do nothing. Explain that.”

Starmer said in the United Kingdom: “We believe in a mixture” of energy, including oil and gas and renewable energies.

The new golf course is the third owned by the Trump organization in Scotland. Trump bought Turnberry in 2014 and has another course near Aberdeen that opened in 2012.

Trump played Golf in Turnberry on Saturday when protesters took to the streets and on Sunday. He invited Starmer, who does not play golf, aboard Air Force One so that the prime minister could make a private tour of his Aberdeen properties before Tuesday’s ceremonial opening.

“Even if you play badly, it is still good,” Trump said about golf in his course during the weekend. “If you had a bad day in the golf course, that’s fine. It’s better than other days.”

Trump also found time to praise the renewed dance hall of Turnberry, who said he had paid luxuriously to update, even suggesting that he could install one like this in the White House.

“I could take this, leave it right there,” Trump joked. “And it would be beautiful.”

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