{"id":90922,"date":"2025-07-25T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90922\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:38:11","slug":"welcome-to-scotland-donald-heres-what-the-locals-think-of-you-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90922\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Scotland, Donald! Here\u2019s what the locals think of you. \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alec Clark, independent deputy leader of South Ayrshire Council\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s presence will generate global attention \u2014 but Alec Clark will have to deal with the local reaction long after the president has jetted back to America. The independent deputy leader of South Ayrshire Council, whose ward includes Trump Turnberry, is in a sunny mood about the trip, praising the funds that Trump\u2019s company has plowed into the tiny rural village.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe actual investment that goes into Turnberry year after year, week after week, day after day, is tremendous,\u201d Clark says, lauding the more than 400 people employed \u201cin a rural area where every job is like gold dust.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The estate unsurprisingly became a huge attraction after Trump entered politics, and Clark has noticed that \u201ctourists are stopping there to take photographs of the hotel.\u201d He ascribes Trump\u2019s \u201csympathetic stance\u201d toward Scotland to his mother\u2019s Scottish roots.<\/p>\n

\"\"On the itinerary is time at his Turnberry and Aberdeen golf resorts. | Robert Perry\/EPA<\/p>\n

As police prepare for protests, Clark defends such dissent as \u201cone of the things you\u2019ve got to handle\u201d in a democracy. \u201cIt\u2019s only courteous to listen, because people can protest \u2026 but the only way to make a difference is to discuss,\u201d he reflects.<\/p>\n

If Trump does have <\/strong>some time away from the golf buggy, Clark reckons he should pop along to the Robert Burns museum in Alloway, a suburb north of Turnberry, to learn more about the poet and view some original manuscripts.\u00a0\u201cBurns is history,\u201d Clark says. \u201cBurns is the National Bard of Scotland. He\u2019s known all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brian Whittle, Tory Scottish Parliament member (MSP) for South Scotland<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brian Whittle is no stranger to presidential big beasts rolling into town. Prior to entering the Scottish Parliament to represent South Scotland \u2014 which includes Turnberry \u2014 the Conservative MSP ran an event management company that organized a visit to Glasgow by Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alec Clark, independent deputy leader of South Ayrshire Council\u00a0 Trump\u2019s presence will generate global attention \u2014 but Alec…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[60435,3992,259,5533,7096,60436,74,7837,69,5495,10111,3350,4920,26769,18890,1430,472,3195,268,60437,17723,60438,31408,3097,1802,50,270,2853,60439,8303,866,125,18610,6313,20958,4995,5677,376,67,132,68,131,9826,60440,60441,11762],"class_list":{"0":"post-90922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-additives","10":"tag-americas","11":"tag-banks","12":"tag-beef","13":"tag-bill-clinton","14":"tag-british-politics","15":"tag-china","16":"tag-democracy","17":"tag-donald-trump","18":"tag-energy","19":"tag-farmers","20":"tag-foreign-policy","21":"tag-fossil-fuels","22":"tag-gas","23":"tag-genocide","24":"tag-golf","25":"tag-history","26":"tag-industry","27":"tag-investment","28":"tag-john-swinney","29":"tag-keir-starmer","30":"tag-labeling","31":"tag-meat","32":"tag-middle-east","33":"tag-military","34":"tag-news","35":"tag-oil","36":"tag-parliament","37":"tag-policing","38":"tag-protectionism","39":"tag-renewable-energy","40":"tag-rights","41":"tag-roads","42":"tag-scotland","43":"tag-seafood","44":"tag-security","45":"tag-services","46":"tag-united-kingdom","47":"tag-united-states","48":"tag-unitedstates","49":"tag-us","50":"tag-war","51":"tag-weapons","52":"tag-wendy-chamberlain","53":"tag-westminster-bubble","54":"tag-xi-jinping"},"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\/90922","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=90922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}