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07/17 14:15 CDT Trump will visit Scotland, where his family has golf courses,
and will talk trade with Starmer
Trump will visit Scotland, where his family has golf courses, and will talk
trade with Starmer
By WILL WEISSERT
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) --- President Donald Trump will head to Scotland next week,
visiting areas where his family owns two golf courses and is opening a third,
and will meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss trade ahead
of an official state visit to Britain in September.
Trump's trip from July 25-29 will see him visit Turnberry, home to a historic
golf course and hotel he bought in 2014, and Aberdeen, where one Trump golf
course has operated since 2012 and a new one is set to open in August, the
White House said Thursday.
During the trip, Trump plans to meet with Starmer to "refine" a previously
announced trade deal, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
Trump himself had previously said he'd be discussing trade with Starmer and
said those talks would take place at "probably one of my properties" in
Aberdeen, but the White House hadn't previously announced the trip.
The White House hasn't commented on whether the Republican president plans to
golf while in Scotland, though he played his Turnberry course during his first
term in 2018, ahead of traveling to Helsinki, Finland, for a high-stakes
meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The president's son's Eric and
Donald Jr. are now running the family business, The Trump Organization, while
their father is in the White House.
During her briefing with reporters, Leavitt also said Trump and first lady
Melania Trump will travel to the United Kingdom from Sept. 17-19 and meet with
King Charles.
That trip had already been confirmed by Buckingham Palace and will mark Trump's
second state visit to the United Kingdom after he first had one in 2019. No
U.S. president had previously been invited for a second state visit.
"He is honored and looking forward to meeting with his majesty, the king at
Windsor Castle," Leavitt said.
Trump's first golf course near Aberdeen, International Golf Links Scotland, is
set to host an event on the European tour, the Scottish Championship, from Aug.
7-10. It will be the first time the course has staged a European tour event,
though it held a tournament on the seniors' tour in 2023 and 2024 and will do
so again this year, the week before the Scottish Championship.
Located on the Ayrshire coast, around 200 miles (320 kilometers) southwest of
Aberdeen, Trump Turnberry is one of 10 courses on the rotation to host the
British Open --- the oldest of the four major championships in men's golf ---
but hasn't staged that event since 2009, before Trump bought the resort.
