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‘Get Oot’: Donald Trump plays Golf as Angry Scots Protest visit
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‘Get Oot’: Donald Trump plays Golf as Angry Scots Protest visit

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US President Donald Trump played Golf under tight safety on the first full day of a visit to Scotland, while hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in big cities.
Trump played in his Turnberry Resort on the southwest coast of Scotland with son Eric and the American ambassador in the VK, Warren Stephens, waving with photographers. He arrived on Friday evening the local time in his mother’s native country.
His presence has changed a virtual fort from the picturesque and normally quiet area, with roads closed and police control points.
Police officers – some on quads and others on foot with sniffer dogs – patrolled the famous race and the sandy beaches and grass dunes that flank it.

Snipers of the secret service were placed on vantage points, while some other golfers were beaten on the track by security staff.

Donald Trump was spotted golf on one of his Scottish property prior to official meetings. Source: Pa / Robert Perry

The 79-year-old Trump hit the nearby Airport of Prestwick on Friday when hundreds of spectators came out to see Air Force One and catch a glimpse of his famous passenger.

The president has claimed a love for Scotland, but his controversial politics and business investments in the country have made an uncomfortable relationship.
Trump spoke with reporters on the asphalt, immediately waded in the debate on high levels of irregular migration and achieved the efforts of renewable energy.
“You better get your act together or you are not going to have Europe anymore,” he said, adding that migration “kill” the continent.

“Stop the windmills. You ruin your countries,” he added.

Protesters angry with Trump and Keir Starmer

Trump’s five -day visit, which is set to combine free time with matters and diplomacy, has divided the local community.
His resort is not only well protected, but it is also in a relatively remote area, which means that most protesters chose to make their voice heard in the big cities of Scotland.
On the East Coast, a few hundred protesters demonstrated outside the American consulate in the capital Edinburgh and further north in the city of Aberdeen, near where Trump has a different golf resort.
The protests were organized by the Stop Trump Coalition, who called on the Prime Minister of Scotland not to attend a planned meeting with Trump.

Participants held up placards with slogans such as “Scotland hate Trump” and waved with Palestinian flags.

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People participate in a Stop Trump Scotland protest outside the American consulate in Edinburgh. Source: Pa / Jane Barlow

“I am here because of fascism in America under the rule of Trump. I am here because of genocide in Gaza that is financed and made possible by British and American governments,” said 44-year-old Amy Hanlon in Aberdeen.

Others said they didn’t want him in Scotland.
“People have to rise against Trump and he must know that there are people who don’t love what he does, what he does the world and the effect he will have on the future of our children,” said a demonstrator.
Many were furious about the costs of the trip of the US president.

“He is here on a private trip to watch around his golf courses and the amount of money that the Scottish taxpayer costs is absolutely obscene,” said a demonstrator.

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People participate in a Stop Trump Scotland protest in the Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen. Source: Pa / Nick Forbes

The anger was not only aimed at Trump, but also with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has done a lot of time and effort to build a good working relationship with the US President.

“I am disgusted by him … It is shameful. He is to go to the right and he has been a demonstrator to SBS News since the beginning of his premiership.
Starmer will meet Trump on Monday, while on Tuesday the president is expected to meet the prime minister of Scotland, John Swinney, who has publicly endors Kamala Harris.

“I can see that on balance it should probably happen, it can be really uncomfortable on some points if the prime minister does not meet him, but personally I think it would have said much more if John Swinney said:” I don’t meet that man, “said a protesting scot.

Others welcomed Trump

Not everyone was against his visit.
At Prestwick airport on Friday evening, a boy held a sign with the text “Welcome Trump” while a man with a flag waved with the most famous slogan of Trump – Make America Great Again.

“I think the best thing about Trump is that he is not actually a politician, but he is the most powerful man in the world and I think he is looking at the best interests of his own country,” said 46-year-old Lee McLean, who had traveled from nearby Kilmarnock.

“Most politicians really first have to look at the best interests of their own country before they look abroad,” he told Agence France Presse.
Trump will discuss trade with EU chef Ursula von der Leyen in Turnberry on Monday Aest.
Trump is planned to return to the US on Tuesday, but will be back in the UK for a state visit between 17-19 September, when he is organized by King Charles III.

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