President Donald Trump, third proper, and Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, fourth proper, are welcomed at Trump Worldwide Golf Hyperlinks, close to Aberdeen, Scotland, Monday, July 28, 2025. Related Press
BALMEDIE, Scotland — President Donald Trump is opening a brand new golf course bearing his title in Scotland on Tuesday, capping a five-day overseas journey designed round selling his household’s luxurious properties and taking part in golf.
Trump and his sons Eric and Donald Jr. are chopping the ceremonial ribbon and taking part in the first-ever spherical on the new Trump course within the village of Balmedie, on the northern coast of Scotland. Additionally from the nation’s north is the president’s late mom, Mary Anne MacLeod, who was born on the Isle of Lewis, immigrated to New York and died in 2000 at age 88.
“My mom liked Scotland,” Trump stated throughout a gathering with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday at one other one among his golf programs, Turnberry, on Scotland’s southern coast. “It’s completely different when your mom was born right here.”
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Trump used his journey to satisfy with Starmer and attain a commerce framework for tariffs between the U.S. and the European Union’s 27 member international locations — although scores of key particulars stay to be hammered out.
The abroad jaunt let Trump escape Washington’s sweaty summer time humidity but additionally the still-raging scandal over the recordsdata associated to Jeffrey Epstein. However it was principally constructed round golf — and strolling the brand new course earlier than it formally begins promoting rounds to the general public on Aug. 13, including to a prolonged listing of how Trump has used the White Home to advertise his model.
Trump’s property are in a belief, and his sons are operating the household enterprise whereas he’s within the White Home. However any enterprise generated on the course will in the end enrich the president when he leaves workplace.
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The brand new golf course would be the third owned by the Trump Group in Scotland. Trump purchased Turnberry in 2014 and owns one other course close to Aberdeen that opened in 2012.
Trump golfed on Saturday as protesters took to the streets, and on Sunday. He invited Starmer, who famously doesn’t golf, aboard Air Drive One so the prime minister might get a non-public tour of his Aberdeen property earlier than Tuesday’s ceremonial opening.
“Even for those who play badly, it’s nonetheless good,” Trump stated of {golfing} on his course over the weekend. “When you had a nasty day on the golf course, it’s OK. It’s higher than different days.”
Trump even discovered time at Turnberry to reward its renovated ballroom, which he stated he’d paid lavishly to improve — even suggesting that he would possibly set up one prefer it on the White Home.
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“I might take this one, drop it proper down there,” Trump joked. “And it might be stunning.” /dl
