{"id":294506,"date":"2025-07-26T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294506\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T23:44:10","slug":"huge-crowd-of-protesters-gather-on-edinburgh-street-as-donald-trump-begins-scottish-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294506\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge crowd of protesters gather on Edinburgh street as Donald Trump begins Scottish trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hundreds of Donald Trump protestors gathered in Edinburgh on Saturday afternoon to oppose the US president&#8217;s visit to Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 79-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/people\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:touched-dow;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">touched-dow<\/a>n at Prestwick Airport at around 8pm on Friday ahead of a five-day private visit to his luxury golf resorts at Turnberry in Ayrshire and Menie in Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Throughout Saturday, mass protests have been taking place in both Aberdeen and the capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/moment-edinburgh-blaze-rips-city-132131226.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Moment Edinburgh blaze rips through city centre building as fire crews swarm street;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moment Edinburgh blaze rips through city centre building as fire crews swarm street<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/locals-gather-edinburgh-calton-hill-153357277.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Locals gather at Edinburgh Calton Hill for &#039;mysterious show&#039; and have the same reaction;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locals gather at Edinburgh Calton Hill for &#8216;mysterious show&#8217; and have the same reaction<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pictures taken from Regent Terrace show a massive crowd of protestors turning up with banners and placards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some signs read: &#8220;Trump is bad&#8221; and &#8220;SHAME ON YOU DONALD JOHN&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump has a meeting scheduled with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is understood to be making the trip north on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>Join<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DBFongo3zQS6P8RfPA1ryO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh Live&#039;s Whatsapp Community here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> <b>Edinburgh Live&#8217;s Whatsapp Community here <\/b><\/a><b>and get the latest news sent<\/b><b>straight to your messages.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, he made sure to leave Saturday free to play the vaunted Turnberry course and spotted on the green this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Earlier this week, Police Scotland&#8217;s Assistant chief constable Emma Bond said the force will take a \u201cproportionate\u201d approach to ensure people can protest safely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Saturday will be the first real test of Police Scotland during the visit as it control&#8217;s the demonstrations in Aberdeen and Edinburgh, as well as any which spring up near to the president&#8217;s course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Donald Trump protestors gathered in Edinburgh on Saturday afternoon to oppose the US president&#8217;s visit to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,32,1102,4884,530,22870,27704,712,16,15,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-294506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-prestwick-airport","14":"tag-publishing-services","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114922197311147966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294506","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=294506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}