Trump plays golf in Scotland in the midst of protests nationwide

President Trump played golf on Saturday In its course on the coast of Scotland While protesters from all over the country took to the streets to denounce their visit and accuse the United Kingdom leaders to please Americans.

Trump and his son Eric played with the United States ambassador to Britain, Warren Stephens, near Turnberry, a historical course that the Trump family company assumed in 2014. The security was tight and the protesters kept remotely and did not see themselves by the group during the Trump round. He was dressed in black, with a “USA” white cap, and was seen driving a golf cart.

The president seemed to play nine holes, stop for lunch and then leave for nine more. In the mid -afternoon, Plainlothes security officials began to leave, suggesting that Trump was over the day.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in the cobblestone and the wooded street in front of the United States Consulate about 100 miles away in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. The speakers told the crowd that Mr. Trump was not welcome and criticized British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for surprising A recent commercial agreement To avoid rigid tariffs of the United States on the imported goods from the United Kingdom

Protests were planned in other cities such as environmental activists, opponents of the Israel War with Hamas in Gaza and the Pro-Ukraine groups freely formed a “coalition of stopping Trump.” Anita Bhadani, an organizer, said the protests were “like a resistance carnival.”

Trump’s late mother, Mary Anne Macleod, was born on the island of Lewis in Scotland and the president suggested that she feels at home in the country. But the protesters did everything possible to change that.

“I don’t think I can stay and do nothing,” said Amy White, from Edinburgh, who attended his parents. She had a cardboard sign that said “we didn’t negotiate with the fascists.” She said: “Many people here hate him. We are not divided. We are not divided by religion, race or political loyalty, we are here together because we hate him.”

Other protesters had signs of images with Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Like fervor about files In the case, the president has frustrated more and more.

In Mark Gorman’s opinion, 63, from Edimburg, “the vast majority of Scots have this kind of feeling about Trump that, although he has Scottish roots, is a shame.”

Gorman, who works in advertising, said it came out “because I have a deep disdain for Donald Trump and everything he represents.”

Saturday’s protests were not as big as the crowds that were demonstrated in Scotland when Trump played in Turnberry during his first term in 2018.

But while playing bagpipes, people sang “Trump out!” And dozens of homemade signs raised who said things like “There is no red carpet for dictators”, “we don’t love you here” and “stop Trump. Migrants welcome.”

A dog had a sign that said “without sweets for the tyrants.”

Some on the extreme right turned to social networks to ask for meetings that support Trump in places like Glasgow.

Mr. Trump Also plan to talk about trade With Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. But golf is an important approach.

The family will also visit another Trump course near Aberdeen in Northeast of Scotland, before returning to Washington on Tuesday. The Trump will cut the tape and play a new second year in that area, which officially opens up to the public next month.

The Scottish Prime Minister, John Swinney, who is also ready to meet Mr. Trump during the visit, announced that the public money will organize the 2025 Nexo Championship, previously known previously as the Scottish championship, in the first course of Mr. Trump near Aberdeen next month.

“The Scottish government recognizes the importance and benefits of golf and golf events, including the impulse of tourism and our economy,” Swinney said.

In a protest on Saturday in Aberdeen, Maggie Chapman, a member of the Scottish Parliament, told the multitude of hundreds of hundreds: “We sympathized, not only against Trump but against everything he and his policy represent.”

The president has pressed for a long time for Turnberry to be the host of the British Open, which he has not done since he assumed the property.

In a social networks publication on Saturday, Trump quoted retired golfer Gary Player saying that Turnberry was among the “five best golf courses” in which he had played as a professional. The president, in the post, wrote the city where his golf course is.

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