US President Donald Trump arrives in Scotland for four days

“It’s great to have a four-day private visit in Scotland,” said U.S. President Donald Trump.

Before 20:30, the U.S. president met with Ian Murray and Warren Stephens, the U.S. ambassador to the UK, after Air Force One landed at Prestwick Airport.

Trump spoke to reporters before the presidential team left him at Turnberry Resort in South Ayrshire and was expected to play golf on Saturday.

Speaking of Sir Keir Starmer, he will meet on Monday, “I like your prime minister. He is a little freer than my liberals – you may have heard of – but he is a good guy. He completed the trade agreement. ”

Trump added: “You know, they’ve made this deal, they’ve finished it, and he did it – it’s a good choice and a good choice for the UK.”

The president also earlier described Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, as “a good guy” and said he was looking forward to meeting him.

Swinney has promised to “speak essentially for Scotland”.

The vehicle contains more than twenty vehicles – entering Trump’s Turmberry Golf Resort at about 21:30, flanked by Scottish police vehicles and ambulance crew.

When he arrived at the luxury hotel, the president’s vehicle (known as the beast) passed through a small group of protesters.

Trump will stay at Turnberry for the weekend before heading to his second property in Aberdeenshire, where he will open a new 18-hole course in Meny.

He told reporters that the late James Bond star played a crucial role in the project.

“Sean Connery helped me get a license – if it weren’t for Sean Connery, we wouldn’t have those great classes.”

Trump is expected to meet Starmer and Swinney on Monday, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Confirm on X She will meet with the president on Sunday to discuss transatlantic trade relations.

Trump will return to the United States on Tuesday and will return to the UK for a formal state visit in September.

Many protests are expected to coincide with the visit, including demonstrations in Edinburgh and Aberdeen on Saturday.

Major security operations were conducted this week in South Eygh and Aberdeenshire ahead of the president’s trip.

Dozens of officials have also been drafted to support other British troops in Scotland in support of Scotland.

Road closures and transfers have been made in Turnberry, while security checkpoints outside the resort have already erected large fences around the course.

Menie also saw many police officers at the scene.

Speaking to a reporter in Prestwick, Trump said European countries need to “unity” in immigration and “stop windmills”, referring to wind farms.

He said: “I say two things to Europe: Stop the windmill. You’re ruining your country. I mean, it’s so sad.

“You fly over and see these windmills everywhere, destroying beautiful fields and valleys, killing birds, and if they are trapped in the ocean, destroying the ocean.

“Stop the windmill, I mean, I can say a few things, but when it comes to immigration, you’d better get together or you won’t have Europe anymore.”

In 2019, his company Trump International lost a long court battle to stop large-scale wind energy developments built near Aberdeen.

Trump believes the project includes 11 wind turbines that will damage his view at Meney Golf Course.

Trump also claimed that illegal immigration was a “invasion” of “killing Europe”.

He said: “Last month, we (the United States) had no one in our country. No one was closed. We took a lot of bad guys with (former US President Joe) Biden who got there.

“Biden is totally stiff, what he allows to happen. … But you allow it to happen in your country, you have to stop the terrible invasion that happens in Europe; many of Europe’s countries.

“Some people, some leaders don’t let it happen, they don’t get the credibility they deserve.

“I can name them now, but I won’t embarrass others.

“But stop: This kind of immigration is killing Europe.”

Ask The latest developments in Epstein’s documents Trump said Ghislaine Maxwell told the Justice Department that he had “really nothing to say”.

“Obviously, a lot of people are asking me questions about pardons – there is no time to talk about pardons.”

He said the media “it’s not a big deal to do something,” it’s a big deal.

Earlier, Prime Minister Rachel Reeves told reporters that the US president’s visit to Scotland is in the “national interest.”

“What our Prime Minister Keir Starmer does in building this relationship with President Trump means we are the first country in the world to get a trade deal,” she said during a visit to the Rolls-Royce plant near Glasgow Airport.

Reeves added that from the Scotch whisky industry to the Scottish people of the Ministry of Defense, it has “real benefits” for people in Scotland.

Sweeney said his meeting with Trump would provide an opportunity to “elementally speak out for Scotland” on issues such as trade and business growth in Scotland.

The first minister said he would also raise “major international issues” “The horror of the situation in Gaza”.

He urged those who intend to protest the president’s visit to “do this peacefully in the law.”

It is rare to sit in the US president’s visit to Scotland.

Queen Elizabeth hosted Dwight d Eisenhower in Balmoral In Aberdeenshire in 1957.

George W Bush went to Gleneagles in Perthshire for the G8 summit in 2005, and Joe Biden attended the climate conference in Glasgow in 2021.

The only other service president of this century is Better than yourself in 2018 When he was met by protesters, including a flying Paraglider crossing the corner, violating the air removal area around the resort.

He returned after being defeated by Biden in 2023 for two and a half years.

Trump does have a real connection to Scotland.

His Gaelic mother Mary Anne MacLeodborn in 1912 on Lewis Island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, went to New York during the Great Depression to marry real estate developer Fred Trump in New York.

Their son returns to Scotland for four days this summer, and the president and first lady Melania Trump will be presided over by King Charles at Windsor Castle in Berkshire before the official state visit from September 17 to 19.