{"id":293747,"date":"2025-07-26T16:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293747\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T16:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:46:17","slug":"trump-delivers-immigration-message-on-scotland-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293747\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump delivers immigration message on Scotland visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 26 (UPI) &#8212; President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Donald_Trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Donald Trump\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> played golf in Scotland Saturday morning, teeing it up at his Trump Turnberry golf resort ahead of meetings with European lawmakers and delivering a message.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I say two things to Europe: Stop the windmills. You&#8217;re ruining your countries. I really mean it, it&#8217;s so sad. You fly over and you see these windmills all over the place, ruining your beautiful fields and valleys and killing your birds,&#8221; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/26\/trump-tells-europe-to-get-your-act-together-on-immigration-before-us-eu-trade-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told reporters after<\/a> arriving on Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On immigration, you better get your act together. You&#8217;re not going to have Europe any more,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is scheduled to discuss trade during a Monday meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Scottish First Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/John_Swinney\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"John Swinney\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"noopener\">John Swinney<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>He is also expected to meet with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen during the four-day visit to Scotland. The delegation will start arriving Saturday and include European trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic, as well as von der Leyen, who Trump referred to as a &#8220;highly respected woman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials and their EU counterparts are continuing attempts to reach a deal before an Aug. 1 deadline that will see 30% reciprocal tariffs take effect on all EU member states.\n<\/p>\n<p>The United States and Britain<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2025\/06\/30\/trade-deal-with-US-takes-effect\/2111751271873\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> reached a deal in June<\/a> on tariffs between the two countries, although Trump and Starmer were expected to iron out details during their meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Protestors<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/26\/politics\/trump-scotland-golf-epstein-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> demonstrated against Trump&#8217;s visit<\/a> in both Edinburgh and Aberdeen Saturday morning, including outside the Trump-owned golf course.<\/p>\n<p>He will also visit another of his privately-owned courses, Trump International Scotland in Aberdeenshire, during the trip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are really excited, across this whole weekend, there&#8217;s so many campaign groups turning out in the streets, taking in action in their communities or at rallies like this. It&#8217;s kind of like a carnival of resistance,&#8221; demonstrator Anita Bhadani<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ckg4210lygko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> told the BBC<\/a> outside of the U.S. Consulate General&#8217;s office in Edinburgh Saturday, after helping to organize the Stop Trump Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2025\/07\/25\/uk-trump-starmer-scotland-visit-golf-resorts\/9551753449942\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coalition said its purpose<\/a> is to &#8220;defeat the politics of Trumpism, and to promote an alternative, democratic vision of the world based on peace, social justice and international cooperation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 26 (UPI) &#8212; President Donald Trump played golf in Scotland Saturday morning, teeing it up at his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,32,4884,7852,285,712,14,1017,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-293747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-john-swinney","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-u-s","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114920553425377543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}