26-7-2025
Protesters insisted that Donald Trump is “not welcome here” as the US president took to the golf course on the first full day of his visit to Scotland.
Tight security around the Trump Turnberry course meant no demonstrators were seen when the president took to the greens on Saturday morning.
Dressed in black, with a white cap that said USA on it, Mr Trump could be seen driving a golf buggy, flanked by a fleet of security personnel, as he played on the famous course which he bought in 2014.
The outspoken Republican waved to journalists at one point, with hits including Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl and Elaine Paige’s rendition of Memory from the musical Cats heard playing from his entourage.
But when asked about links to disgraced paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the Simon and Garfunkel hit Bridge Over Troubled Water could be heard.
However hundreds gathered in both Edinburgh and Aberdeen – near the site of Mr Trump’s other Scottish golf resort – to make their opposition to the president known.
In Aberdeen Green north east Scotland MSP Maggie Chapman told the crowd of hundreds: “We stand in solidarity not only against Trump but against everything he and his politics stand for.”
As part of his trip he will also hold talks with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, where the two men will refine a trade deal between the UK and the US that was agreed earlier this year.
The president is also expected to talk trade with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday.