{"id":33406,"date":"2025-07-09T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=33406"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:55:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:55:40","slug":"donald-trump-set-to-visit-scotland-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=33406","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump set to visit Scotland this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=9490e484-2b97-4a48-baaf-1ac404beabb9&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>President Donald Trump is set to visit the UK this summer but has no plans to meet King Charles during the \u201csemi-private\u201d trip, in what is likely to nonetheless require a huge security operation, according to multiple people.<\/p>\n<p>The president is due to travel to Scotland, where he has several golf courses, in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was always hoping to come semi-privately\u201d this summer, said one person with knowledge of the plans, who added that there was \u201cno proposal to see the King\u201d during the visit. A second person confirmed these details. <\/p>\n<p>People close to Buckingham Palace said that a private meeting between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/donald-trump\" data-trackable=\"link\">Trump<\/a> and the King would not be possible in the summer months because of the \u201ccomplexities of both principals\u2019 diaries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The president has been offered a second state visit to the UK, which will take place in September. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"n-content-image n-content-image--full\" data-component=\"image-set\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 700px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/ftcms%3Ab2908b01-f08e-4ce0-a1d7-a8ab14e8ec4c?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=700&amp;dpr=1 1x,https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/ftcms%3Ab2908b01-f08e-4ce0-a1d7-a8ab14e8ec4c?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=700&amp;dpr=2 2x,https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/ftcms%3Ab2908b01-f08e-4ce0-a1d7-a8ab14e8ec4c?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=700&amp;dpr=3 3x\" width=\"2122\" height=\"1415\"\/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"n-content-picture__caption o3-editorial-typography-caption\"><span>Keir Starmer hands over a letter from King Charles to Donald Trump in the White House in February<\/span><span> <!-- -->\u00a9 Carl Court\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Assistant chief constable Emma Bond from Police Scotland said planning \u201cis under way for a potential visit to Scotland later this month by the president of the United States\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cWhile official confirmation has not yet been made, it is important that we prepare in advance for what would be a significant policing operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Eric Trump said his father would attend the opening of his new 18-hole course in Aberdeenshire, which is set to be named after the president\u2019s mother. A website for the new site states that the course is due to open on August 13. <\/p>\n<p>Trump International Scotland and the White House declined to comment. Eric Trump, an executive vice-president of the Trump Organization, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>When UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer travelled to the US in February, he took a letter with him from the King, inviting Trump to meet him at either Dumfries House in Ayrshire or Balmoral Castle, in Scotland, to make preparations for a state visit to the UK later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is expanding his existing site near Aberdeen with the new course, described on the site\u2019s website as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trumpgolf.com\/the-greatest-36\" data-trackable=\"link\">greatest 36 holes in golf\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"n-content-image n-content-image--full\" data-component=\"image-set\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 700px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/ftcms%3A9570178b-f354-4d4c-b459-d8b929a53926?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=700&amp;dpr=1 1x,https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/ftcms%3A9570178b-f354-4d4c-b459-d8b929a53926?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=700&amp;dpr=2 2x,https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/ftcms%3A9570178b-f354-4d4c-b459-d8b929a53926?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=700&amp;dpr=3 3x\" width=\"2241\" height=\"1493\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F9570178b-f354-4d4c-b459-d8b929a53926.jpg?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=700&amp;dpr=1\" alt=\"The Trump Turnberry clubhouse covered in red pain\" data-image-type=\"image\" width=\"2241\" height=\"1493\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"n-content-picture__caption o3-editorial-typography-caption\"><span>In March, activist group Palestine Action daubed red paint on a clubhouse and dug up greens at Trump Turnberry in south-west Scotland<\/span><span> <!-- -->\u00a9 Credit Milo Chandler\/Alamy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump\u2019s visits to Scotland have sparked widespread protest in the past, including when nearly 10,000 people took to the streets in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Although a \u00a35mn security operation was in place to keep protesters away from the presidential entourage, a paraglider evaded police snipers and flew in front of the hotel, towing a banner that read \u2018Trump: well below par #resist\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March, activist group Palestine Action daubed red paint on a clubhouse and dug up greens at Trump Turnberry in south-west Scotland, saying they intended to show the president that his properties were \u201cwithin reach\u201d. Trump labelled the protesters as \u201cterrorists\u201d and said he hoped the perpetrators would be treated harshly. <\/p>\n<p>The UK earlier this month designated Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation after some of its members broke into an air force base and sprayed red paint on refuelling jets that they claimed were being used to support Israeli operations in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>UK officials have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0f7ec2b7-d0dc-4955-9f6c-f1844c4ea11e\" data-trackable=\"link\">exploring<\/a> how Turnberry could once again host The Open golf championship in response to pressure from the president. <\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by James Politi and Alex Rogers in Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9490e484-2b97-4a48-baaf-1ac404beabb9\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}