Balmedie, Scotland (AP)-Golf and Scotland are close to the heart of US President Donald Trump, and both were in the game on Tuesday when he opened a new course in the country of the birth of his mother and described a five-day trip that was mainly about promoting the luxury properties of his family.
Trump for Golf and a white hat with the inscription “USA”, Trump came in such a humorous mood that he even condemned occasional praise – instead of the usual insults – about the contingent of journalists who had gathered to cover the event.
“Today they are not false news,” said Trump. “Today they are wonderful news.”
The trip, which was based on Golf, gave him the chance to escape Washington’s summer heat, but he could not avoid any questions about Jeffrey Epstein, the in -depth food crisis in Gaza or other topics that were left over the Atlantic. The trip itself has another example of how the Republican President used the White House to promote his brand.
Trump speaks to Gaza and Epstein
Trump was concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza on Monday and asked the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to do more to get hungry Palestinians on food aids.
When asked whether he agreed on Netanyah’s claim on Sunday that “there is no starving policy in Gaza and there is no hunger in Gaza,” said Trump, he didn’t know, but added: “I mean, based on television, I would not say particularly well because these children look very hungry.”
The President also offered a reason why he exiled Epstein years ago from his private club in Palm Beach, Florida, and said that the incredulous financier “stole people who worked for me”. A top adjutant of the White House said last week that Epstein was thrown out because of “crawling”.
Trump teas on the newly opened golf course
Flank from the sons Eric and Donald Jr., counted Trump with “1-2-3” and carried out a gold scissors to cut a red ribbon that marked the ceremonial opening of the new Trump course in the village of Balestie on Scotland’s north coast.
“This was an incredible development,” said Trump before cutting. He thanked Eric, who had designed the course and said his work on the project was “really a love work for him”.
Eric Trump said the course was his father’s “passion project”.
Immediately afterwards, Trump, Eric Trump and two professional golfers in the first hole with plans to play 18 before the president returns to Washington on Tuesday evening. Trump rarely allows the news media to see his golf game, although video journalists and photographers often find him on the pitch when he plays.
Trump’s shot had a solid sound and rose straight, high and relatively far. It is clearly delighted, he turned to the cameras and avoided almost half a bow.
“He likes the course, ladies and gentlemen,” said Eric Trump.
The Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, organizes the “largest 36 holes in Golf” and organizes two weekend weekends before it offers the public on August 13th.
Trump fits the White House business into a golf free
Trump worked an official business on the trip by holding talks with the British Prime Minister Keir Starrer and achieving a trade frame for tariffs between the USA and the 27 member countries of the European Union – although the number of most vital details must continue to be solved.
But the trip itself revolved around the Golf, and the presidential visit served to escalate the new profile of the course.
Trump’s assets are in a trust and his sons lead the family business while he is in the White House. However, every company that is generated on the course will enrich the president if it leaves office.
The new golf course will be owned by the Trump organization in Scotland. Trump bought Turnberry in 2014 and has another course near Aberdeen, which was opened in 2012.
Trump went in Turnberry on Saturday when demonstrators took to the streets and on Sunday, before he met Ursula von der Leyen in the afternoon with the President of the European Commission.
The new course combines things that are Trump
The occasion mixed two things that Trump was steep: Golf and Scotland.
His mother, the behind schedule Mary Anne Macleod, was born on the Isle of Lewis on the north coast.
“We love Scotland here. My mother was born here and she loved it,” said Trump on Tuesday. In summer she visited “religious once a year” with his sisters, he said.
Perhaps the wind turbines are the only mood buster for Trump who are part of a nearby wind farm and can be seen from the new course.
Trump, who often talks about his hatred of windmills, sued in 2013 to block the construction of the wind farm, but lost the case and was finally instructed to pay legal costs for submitting the lawsuit – a matter that is still upset him more than a decade later.
In a new episode of the “Pod Force One” podcast of the New York Post, Trump said that the “ugly windmills” are a “shame” and Scotland are really “injured”. The interview was led over the weekend and published on Tuesday.
“It kills the birds, ruins the look. They are loud,” he said, claiming that the value of the real estate around them also drops. “I think it’s a very bad thing. It is terrible in an environmentally understandable way.”
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Superville reported from Washington.
