Security tightens as Donald Trump tees off at Turnberry

Donald Trump starts a four -day visit in Scotland, while a major security operation is increasing.

The US president came to Prestwick Airport on Friday evening and stayed in Trump Turnberry, a luxury golf town in South Ayrashire.

He wore a white “US” hat and accompanied by his second son Eric, the first morning at the facility at 10:00 at a round of golf.

In the next few days, Trump will meet with British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and John Swinney, the first Minister of Scotland, and will open a second -hole course with his property in Aberdeenchire.

“It is great to be in Scotland,” he said, and praised the leaders of both governments.

Edinburgh and Aberdeen, including demonstrations, some protests that will coincide with the visit are expected.

Police representatives expressed their concerns about the relevant costs and the impact of the personnel and the questions about the scale and safety consequences of the visit have emerged.

Journalists, photographers and Aircraft observers It was among the crowds gathered on Friday to see Air Force One’s touching Prestwick just before 20:30.

Trump was greeted by Scottish Secretary Ian Murray and the US Ambassador to British Warren Stephens.

The president spoke to journalists before accompanying him from a highway of more than two dozens of vehicles.

Police and military personnel scanning around the facility while a series of roads were closed in the region.

A safety checkpoint was placed outside the hotel and a large fence was built around the course.

While the security remained tight around Turnberry, some golfers were able to use the AILSA course from 07:30, albeit under windy conditions.

Drones and helicopters also walk around the hill.

Trump played three other golfs, including his son Eric, with an environment with 15 golf cars.

A tour of Turnberry in intense summer can cost £ 1,000.

There was no sign of protesters around the course.

As Trump walked on the fourth T -shirts, he waved to photographers gathered in a beach dune for a perspective.

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

The US President will return to Washington on Tuesday and return to England for an official state visit in September.

In a statement to the press at Prestwick, Trump said that European countries should “come together” about migration and refer to wind farms, “stopping windmills”.

In 2019, the Trump International company lost a long -term court war to stop a large wind energy development built in the North Sea outside Aberdeen.

Trump, 11 wind turbine project, the project, Menie’deki golf field argued that the scenery will break the view.

Swinney said that his meeting with Trump would offer the opportunity to “Essentially Speak for Scotland” on issues such as trade and the increase in the US in Scotland.

The first minister said he would bring up important international issues, including the “horror of the situation in Gaza”.

The authority called on the President of the President to protest against the visit of “peaceful and law in the law”.

US presidents sitting and visits to Scotland are rare.

In 1957, Queen Elizabeth hosted Dwight D Eisenhower at Balmoral in Aberdeenshire.

In 2005, George W Bush went to Gleneagles in Perthshire in 2005 and joined a climate conference in Glasgow in 2021.

The other only service visiting this century, the President of Trump himself in 2018, is welcomed by protesters who fly on a low -slope on Turnberry and violate the air exclusion zone around the facility.

He returned in 2023 two and a half years after Biden was defeated.

In September, Trump will make an official state visit to England in September, when the first Lady Melania Trump will be held by King Charles at Windsor Castle in Berkshire.

It is the second state visit to which it is given – the second term US presidents are not traditionally presented to the state visits, and instead they were usually invited to tea or lunch with the ruler at Windsor Castle.