\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPresident Donald Trump opened a new golf course bearing his name in Scotland on Tuesday, capping a five-day foreign trip designed around promoting his family’s luxury properties and playing golf.\u201cLet’s go. 1-2-3,\u201d Trump said before he cut a red ribbon and fireworks popped to mark the official opening of the new Trump course in the village of Balmedie on Scotland’s northern coast.\u201cThis has been an unbelievable development,\u201d Trump said before the opening. He thanked his son Eric for his work on the project, saying it was \u201ctruly a labor of love for him.\u201d Son Don Jr. also was present.Immediately after the opening, Trump, Eric Trump and two professional golfers in the foursome teed off on the first hole. They planned to play 18 holes before Trump returns to Washington.The overseas jaunt let Trump escape Washington\u2019s sweaty summer humidity and the still-raging scandal over the case of Jeffrey Epstein.It was mostly built around golf \u2014 and walking the new course before it officially begins offering rounds to the public on Aug. 13, adding to a lengthy list of ways Trump has used the White House to promote his brand.Billing itself the \u201cGreatest 36 Holes in Golf,\u201d the Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, was designed by Eric Trump. The course is hosting a PGA Seniors Championship event later this week, after Trump leaves. Signs promoting the event had already been erected all over the course before he arrived on Tuesday, and, on the highway leading in, temporary metal signs guided drivers onto the correct road.Golfers hitting the course at dawn as part of that event had to put their clubs through metal detectors erected as part of the security sweeps ahead of Trump’s arrival. Several dozen people, some dressed for golf, including wearing cleats, had filled the sand trap near the tee box to watch the ribbon-cutting ceremony shortly before it was scheduled to start. Another group of people were watching from the other side in tall grass growing on sand dunes flanking the first hole.Also from Scotland’s north is the president’s late mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who was born on the Isle of Lewis, immigrated to New York and died in 2000 at age 88.\u201cMy mother loved Scotland,\u201d Trump said during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday at another one of his golf courses, Turnberry, on Scotland’s southern coast. \u201cIt’s different when your mother was born here.\u201dTrump used his trip to meet with Starmer and reach a trade framework for tariffs between the U.S. and the European Union\u2019s 27 member countries \u2014 though scores of key details remain to be hammered out. But the trip has featured a lot of golf, and having the president visit is sure to raise the new course’s profile.Trump\u2019s assets are in a trust, and his sons are running the family business while he\u2019s in the White House. Any business generated at the course will ultimately enrich the president when he leaves office, though.Visible from various parts of the new course were towering windmills lining the coast \u2014 some with blades that showed visible dots of rust. They are part of a nearby windfarm that Trump sued to block construction of in 2013.He lost that case and was eventually ordered to pay legal costs for bringing it \u2014 and the issue still enrages him. During the meeting with Starmer, Trump called windmills \u201cugly monsters\u201d and suggested they were part of \u201cthe most expensive form of energy.\u201d\u201cI restricted windmills in the United States because they also kill all your birds,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIf you shoot a bald eagle in the United States, they put you in jail for five years. And windmills knock out hundreds of them. They don\u2019t do anything. Explain that.\u201dStarmer said in the U.K., \u201cwe believe in a mix\u201d of energy, including oil and gas and renewables.The new golf course will be the third owned by the Trump Organization in Scotland. Trump bought Turnberry in 2014 and owns another course near Aberdeen that opened in 2012.Trump golfed at Turnberry on Saturday as protesters took to the streets, and on Sunday. He invited Starmer, who famously doesn\u2019t golf, aboard Air Force One so the prime minister could get a private tour of his Aberdeen properties before Tuesday\u2019s ceremonial opening.\u201cEven if you play badly, it\u2019s still good,\u201d Trump said of golfing on his course over the weekend. \u201cIf you had a bad day on the golf course, it\u2019s OK. It\u2019s better than other days.\u201dTrump also found time to praise Turnberry’s renovated ballroom, which he said he’d paid lavishly to upgrade \u2014 even suggesting that he might install one like it at the White House.\u201cI could take this one, drop it right down there,” Trump joked. \u201cAnd it would be beautiful.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump opened a new golf course bearing his name in Scotland on Tuesday, capping a five-day foreign trip designed around promoting his family’s luxury properties and playing golf.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet’s go. 1-2-3,\u201d Trump said before he cut a red ribbon and fireworks popped to mark the official opening of the new Trump course in the village of Balmedie on Scotland’s northern coast.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has been an unbelievable development,\u201d Trump said before the opening. He thanked his son Eric for his work on the project, saying it was \u201ctruly a labor of love for him.\u201d Son Don Jr. also was present.<\/p>\n
Immediately after the opening, Trump, Eric Trump and two professional golfers in the foursome teed off on the first hole. They planned to play 18 holes before Trump returns to Washington.<\/p>\n
The overseas jaunt let Trump escape Washington\u2019s sweaty summer humidity and the still-raging scandal over the case of Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n
It was mostly built around golf \u2014 and walking the new course before it officially begins offering rounds to the public on Aug. 13, adding to a lengthy list of ways Trump has used the White House to promote his brand.<\/p>\n
Billing itself the \u201cGreatest 36 Holes in Golf,\u201d the Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, was designed by Eric Trump. The course is hosting a PGA Seniors Championship event later this week, after Trump leaves. Signs promoting the event had already been erected all over the course before he arrived on Tuesday, and, on the highway leading in, temporary metal signs guided drivers onto the correct road.<\/p>\n
Golfers hitting the course at dawn as part of that event had to put their clubs through metal detectors erected as part of the security sweeps ahead of Trump’s arrival. Several dozen people, some dressed for golf, including wearing cleats, had filled the sand trap near the tee box to watch the ribbon-cutting ceremony shortly before it was scheduled to start. Another group of people were watching from the other side in tall grass growing on sand dunes flanking the first hole.<\/p>\n
Also from Scotland’s north is the president’s late mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who was born on the Isle of Lewis, immigrated to New York and died in 2000 at age 88.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mother loved Scotland,\u201d Trump said during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday at another one of his golf courses, Turnberry, on Scotland’s southern coast. \u201cIt’s different when your mother was born here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump used his trip to meet with Starmer and reach a trade framework for tariffs between the U.S. and the European Union\u2019s 27 member countries \u2014 though scores of key details remain to be hammered out. But the trip has featured a lot of golf, and having the president visit is sure to raise the new course’s profile.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s assets are in a trust, and his sons are running the family business while he\u2019s in the White House. Any business generated at the course will ultimately enrich the president when he leaves office, though.<\/p>\n
Visible from various parts of the new course were towering windmills lining the coast \u2014 some with blades that showed visible dots of rust. They are part of a nearby windfarm that Trump sued to block construction of in 2013.<\/p>\n
He lost that case and was eventually ordered to pay legal costs for bringing it \u2014 and the issue still enrages him. During the meeting with Starmer, Trump called windmills \u201cugly monsters\u201d and suggested they were part of \u201cthe most expensive form of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI restricted windmills in the United States because they also kill all your birds,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIf you shoot a bald eagle in the United States, they put you in jail for five years. And windmills knock out hundreds of them. They don\u2019t do anything. Explain that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starmer said in the U.K., \u201cwe believe in a mix\u201d of energy, including oil and gas and renewables.<\/p>\n
The new golf course will be the third owned by the Trump Organization in Scotland. Trump bought Turnberry in 2014 and owns another course near Aberdeen that opened in 2012.<\/p>\n
Trump golfed at Turnberry on Saturday as protesters took to the streets, and on Sunday. He invited Starmer, who famously doesn\u2019t golf, aboard Air Force One so the prime minister could get a private tour of his Aberdeen properties before Tuesday\u2019s ceremonial opening.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if you play badly, it\u2019s still good,\u201d Trump said of golfing on his course over the weekend. \u201cIf you had a bad day on the golf course, it\u2019s OK. It\u2019s better than other days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump also found time to praise Turnberry’s renovated ballroom, which he said he’d paid lavishly to upgrade \u2014 even suggesting that he might install one like it at the White House.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could take this one, drop it right down there,” Trump joked. \u201cAnd it would be beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump opened a new golf course bearing his name in Scotland on Tuesday, capping a five-day…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[32270,6145,40047,69,1605,39024,66669,1430,66663,66664,17723,16101,66662,62290,61090,66666,5996,66659,5207,866,47582,6313,62,66668,277,66665,66658,54447,17442,5618,61085,66661,67,132,68,5223,66667,66660],"class_list":{"0":"post-102797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-aberdeen","9":"tag-course","10":"tag-dhnd","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-donald-trump-jr","13":"tag-eric-trump","14":"tag-first-hole","15":"tag-golf","16":"tag-golf-tourism","17":"tag-isle-of-lewis","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-late-mother","20":"tag-luxury-properties","21":"tag-mary-anne-macleod","22":"tag-new-golf-course","23":"tag-new-trump-course","24":"tag-part","25":"tag-pga-seniors-championship","26":"tag-president","27":"tag-renewable-energy","28":"tag-ribbon-cutting-ceremony","29":"tag-scotland","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-starmer","32":"tag-trump","33":"tag-trump-brand-promotion","34":"tag-trump-golf-course","35":"tag-trump-international-golf-links","36":"tag-trump-organization","37":"tag-tuesday","38":"tag-turnberry","39":"tag-u-s-eu-trade-framework","40":"tag-united-states","41":"tag-unitedstates","42":"tag-us","43":"tag-white-house","44":"tag-windmill","45":"tag-windmills"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}