“It’s great to be home,” Donald Trump visits Scotland to inaugurate golf course amid U.S. court trial

Former United States President Donald Trump arrived in Scotland to inaugurate a golf course near Aberdeen. This is the former President’s first visit to the United Kingdom since leaving office as the 45th President of the United States in 2020.

Trump arrived with his son Eric at the Aberdeen airport at approximately 11.30 am on Monday and was greeted with the sound of bagpipers, a red carpet, and a 10-vehicle motorcade. Before getting into his car, Trump commented, “It’s great to be home, this was the home of my mother.”

Trump has a special connection with Scotland, given his mother, Mary Trump, was born on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides before emigrating to the United States. However, the former President’s visit came at a time when he became the first United States’ former head of state to be charged with criminal prosecution. Currently, Trump is fighting a tough legal battle against accusations of rape and defamation to be thrown out.

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Former United States President Donald Trump visits Scotland to inaugurate a new golf course

The former President of the United States, Donald Trump, became the first former Head of State in the country’s history to be charged with criminal prosecution. His trip to Scotland coincides with the second week of his Manhattan civil trial over accusations of rape by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.

Carroll alleges that the former President had raped her in a department store dressing room in 1996. However, Trump denies all these accusations and has not attended the trial as of yet. Furthermore, Trump pleaded ‘not guilty’ to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a court appearance last month.

Upon arriving in Scotland, Trump said that his new golf course at Aberdeen would be a suitable choice to “host many great championships” in the future. He added, “My mother was an incredible woman who loved Scotland. She returned here every year and she loved the Queen. I love Scotland just as much.”

Trump and his son Eric will visit the Trump Turnberry course in Ayrshire and then to his course in Doonbeg on the west coast of Ireland. BBC’s Glen Campbell notes that although Trump has opened two golf courses in Aberdeenshire, he has failed to live up to his promise of investing one billion dollars in developing golf in that region. Trump has only spent a fraction of that amount on the same.

Furthermore, the former President of the U.S.A. also had to deal with many tussles in Scotland while building his golf courses. Several environmental campaigners protested against Trump’s involvement in the region, given the sand dune system and its natural habitats near the course were endangered.

Trump has also had a clash with the Scottish government in his attempt to block a wind farm off the Aberdeenshire coast. The Holyrood party leaders vehemently opposed him upon his election as President in 2016. Furthermore, the new First Minister of Scotland, Hama Yousaf, suggests that Trump should be barred from the United Kingdom following the US Capitol building storming by his supporters.

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