{"id":302268,"date":"2025-07-29T21:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302268\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T21:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:57:12","slug":"trump-flies-back-to-the-us-after-whirlwind-trip-to-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302268\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump flies back to the US after whirlwind trip to Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a round of golf at Turnberry on Saturday, Trump met the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Before the talks began he said he was &#8220;not in a good mood&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However the pair came to an agreement, setting the US tariffs on goods from Europe at 15% across the board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The European Union had been facing a 30% levy on its exports to the US from 1 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Monday, the president and prime minister held a meeting at Turnberry, where Starmer presented the president with a European-led peace plan for Gaza before they held a media conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two men then flew to Lossiemouth on Air Force One before taking the presidential helicopter to the Trump International golf resort in Aberdeenshire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swinney had dinner with Trump for about two hours on Monday night, when the first minister made the case for exempting Scotch whisky from US tariffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This was followed by a shorter discussion on Tuesday morning, focused on what  Swinney said was the &#8220;humanitarian catastrophe&#8221; in Gaza. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the meeting, a Scottish government source said the two leaders had a &#8220;very good conversation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a round of golf at Turnberry on Saturday, Trump met the European Commission President Ursula von der&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-302268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114938763271678661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302268","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=302268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}