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'The area has really welcomed us,' the president said Tuesday at Trump International Scotland, near Aberdeen. 'At the beginning, it wasn't quite a welcome, but it wasn't bad. But with time, they've liked us more and more. Now they love us and we love them.'
During a six-minute speech to guests assembled in a grandstand near the first tee, Trump also nodded to his presidential duties before hitting the first tee shot. 'I look forward to playing it today. We'll play it very quickly, and then I go back to DC,' Trump said. 'We just stopped about five wars, so that's much more important than playing golf. '
Trump then cut a red ribbon with a pair of scissors and hit a drive into the fairway, setting out to play the course's first official round with his son, Eric, and former professional golf tour players Paul McGinley and Rich Beem.
Tuesday's event marked one of the starkest examples yet of how Trump has mixed his official duties with his family's business interests. He's repeatedly blurred the lines, holding fundraisers and press conferences at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and hosting LIV Golf tournaments in his courses in New Jersey and Virginia bankrolled by Saudi Arabia's public investment fund.
Make America Great Again hats have appeared along course-branded attire inside the pro shops at Trump's properties at Turnberry and Aberdeen. Campaign anthems, including Michael Jackson's Thriller and the Village People's YMCA, played over loudspeakers at Tuesday's event and red, white and blue fireworks were fired off the first fairway.
The ceremony capped a five-day private trip funded by US taxpayers. White House officials dismissed the notion that Trump's visit amounted to a conflict of interest. The president handed over management of his company when he retook office and his assets were placed in a trust managed by his children, an arrangement ethics groups said still posed conflicts.
'Donald J. Trump has built the best and most beautiful world-class golf courses anywhere in the world, which is why they continue to be used for prestigious tournaments and by the most elite players in the sport,' spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said in a statement ahead of the trip, which noted Trump's plans to meet with Starmer.
Trump also met with Scottish First Minister John Swinney before the grand opening, according to the White House.
Guests expected to attend included a mix of relatives, dignitaries and sports luminaries, such as Swinney; US Ambassador to the UK Warren Stephens; DP World Tour Chief Executive Officer Guy Kinnings; former football stars Robbie Fowler and Andriy Shevchenko; and former US Open winner Michael Campbell.
Although the president is ostensibly in the UK to check out his two golf properties — he arrived at Turnberry in the west of Scotland on Friday — he reached an agreement with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for the US to place a lower 15% tariff on the bloc, and discussed the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the war in Ukraine and trade with Starmer.
Trump's visit to Scotland, the birthplace of his mother, comes as he navigates discord at home over his administration's handling of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He's also enmeshed in a drawn-out fight with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over interest rates and the central bank's headquarters renovation, while Trump's tariff deadline expires Aug. 1.
The new course at Menie will be named after Mary Anne MacLeod, Trump's Gaelic-speaking mother who emigrated to the US as a teenager from Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis. It'll complement the Old Course, which opened in 2012, and — according to Trump International's marketing material — together they will form 'The Greatest 36 Holes in Golf.' The slogan appeared on signs around the property on Tuesday.
Adding another upmarket 18 holes in Scotland won't necessarily endear the president to the locals, few of whom care to spend hundreds of pounds knocking a ball around the links. The event also serves as a reminder to many Scots that his initial foray into Aberdeenshire in 2006, when he was hardly known in the UK, was rife with controversy.
The project promised more jobs than it delivered, Trump bullied local residents who didn't want to move home, while environmentalists were angered when the nearby sand dunes lost their status as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. In 2012, Trump appeared at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to try to halt a wind farm that he said was a blight on the view from his golf course.
Expanding Trump International represents another addition to the list of premier golfing destinations along the country's east coast, ranging from Open Championship courses such as Muirfield to bucket-list venues like St. Andrews and Royal Dornoch. Other top-dollar sites are also getting upgrades — Carnoustie is revamping its hotel and Cabot Highlands is adding another course.
--With assistance from Hadriana Lowenkron.
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Investors will be looking to the earnings call for more details on the fallout. Novo Nordisk also cut its sales forecasts for its weight-loss drugs, citing rivals selling compounded versions, such as Hims & Hers. Listen to the earnings call live. Palantir stock surges after company reports first billion-dollar quarter Yahoo Finance's Jake Conley reports: Read more here. Yahoo Finance's Jake Conley reports: Read more here. Post-earnings stock moves are more volatile than usual this quarter We're two-thirds of the way through earnings season, and for the most part, the market has floated higher on a flurry of earnings releases. Though some individual reports have led to outsized moves. Yahoo Finance's Josh Schafer writes in today's Morning Brief: Read more here. We're two-thirds of the way through earnings season, and for the most part, the market has floated higher on a flurry of earnings releases. Though some individual reports have led to outsized moves. Yahoo Finance's Josh Schafer writes in today's Morning Brief: Read more here. BioNTech shares rise 4% on better-than-expected earnings US-listed shares of the German drugmaker BioNTech (BNTX) rose about 4% in early trading Monday after the company reported better-than-expected second quarter results as it looks to regain momentum after a post-COVID slump. BioNTech reported a loss of 1.60 euros per share, narrower than the 1.69 euro loss analysts expected, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Revenue of 260.8 million euros ($301 million) fell short of estimates of 263.68 million euros ($304 million). In June, BioNTech announced it would partner with Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY) on a new cancer treatment. "We aim to establish BNT327 both as a new standard of care across multiple tumor types," BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin said on the company's earnings call. "We are currently advancing BNT327 across more than 10 indications, including two global registrational trials, with more planned. Our early conviction around this modality and BNT327 has put us in a strong position, and if approved, we aim to be the first or second to launch in a number of indications to patients in need." US-listed shares of the German drugmaker BioNTech (BNTX) rose about 4% in early trading Monday after the company reported better-than-expected second quarter results as it looks to regain momentum after a post-COVID slump. BioNTech reported a loss of 1.60 euros per share, narrower than the 1.69 euro loss analysts expected, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Revenue of 260.8 million euros ($301 million) fell short of estimates of 263.68 million euros ($304 million). In June, BioNTech announced it would partner with Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY) on a new cancer treatment. "We aim to establish BNT327 both as a new standard of care across multiple tumor types," BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin said on the company's earnings call. "We are currently advancing BNT327 across more than 10 indications, including two global registrational trials, with more planned. Our early conviction around this modality and BNT327 has put us in a strong position, and if approved, we aim to be the first or second to launch in a number of indications to patients in need." Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump's unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond. Send tips | Subscribe | Email Sophia | Email Irie | Email Ben President DONALD TRUMP's gambit to grow House Republicans' razor-thin majority through redistricting is starting to meet rare resistance from his own party. Two vulnerable GOP lawmakers — Reps. KEVIN KILEY of California and MIKE LAWLER of New York — are floating separate efforts to ban mid-decade redistricting as the Trump team's push for Texas Republicans to draw a more favorable map sets off a nationwide redistricting arms race. 'What's happening here is not popular among members in either conference,' Kiley told West Wing Playbook. 'I've talked to Republican members who are in states that could potentially benefit in the general political sense, but they don't like the idea of having their districts completely changed in the middle of the decade.' Lawler did not respond to a request for comment. Kiley filed a bill Tuesday aimed chiefly at stopping Democratic governors from retaliatory gerrymandering if Texas Republicans succeed in pushing through a new map that could net the GOP five seats in the midterms. Kiley and Lawler, both swing-district lawmakers, could feel the effects of Democratic redistricting. Lawler's seat, which has long been on Democrats' target list, would be among the districts where the party would try to stretch its advantage in the state. Kiley is also trying to prod Speaker MIKE JOHNSON and House Minority Leader HAKEEM JEFFRIES to reach an agreement to stop the redistricting tit-for-tat in its tracks, though that appears unlikely. 'The onus is on the speaker to show some leadership here,' Kiley said. GREG STEELE, spokesperson for Johnson's political arm, said 'while these efforts remain at the state level, Speaker Johnson is focused on leading the fight to defend and grow the House Republican majority in any district come 2026.' But the legislative pushback also constitutes rare GOP opposition to the president, who stoked the flames of the redistricting fight Tuesday by saying that Republicans are 'entitled' to five more seats in Texas — even as a White House official told our JAKE TRAYLOR that Trump's team is taking 'a pretty hands-off approach' to the partisan battle they set in motion. Kiley suggested that Trump 'doesn't want to see the California congressional delegation upended, or the New York delegation or some of these other states,' though he said he hasn't spoken with the president on the matter. 'It seems to me he was not given full information about how exactly these things might play out,' Kiley added. A person close to the president granted anonymity to describe internal thinking said Trump's team isn't sweating Democrats' threats of retaliation. Democrats face steep obstacles to redistricting even in their best-case-scenario state of California, where Gov. GAVIN NEWSOM plans to call a special election and potentially spend massive sums to convince voters to return mapmaking power from an independent commission to lawmakers. And Republicans are starting to push for redistricting in states beyond Texas, including Missouri. 'Republicans have more opportunity than Democrats' to redraw maps, and 'Democrats' hurdles in the opportunities they claim to have are much higher, because Democrats have extreme gerrymandered maps in their favor everywhere they can,' the person said. The White House's power-protection play carries increasing political risk. As more Democratic governors vow to retaliate, BRENDAN STEINHAUSER, a Texas-based Republican strategist, warned the GOP's redistricting effort 'could backfire if there are enough Democratic seats out there and enough Democratic governors to redraw the maps in a way that ends up hurting Republicans nationwide.' Game out the chess match further and Republicans' machinations could complicate Trump's agenda in Washington. Trump has gotten nearly everything he's wanted from this GOP House. Even if Republicans hold the House next year, they could do so at the expense of some of those Trump-loyal members. 'It could become a real headache for Johnson, building a majority by sacrificing parts of the current majority,' said California-based GOP strategist ROB STUTZMAN. He added: 'What a shock Trump didn't think it through.' MESSAGE US — West Wing Playbook is obsessively covering the Trump administration's reshaping of the federal government. Are you a federal worker? A DOGE staffer? Have you picked up on any upcoming DOGE moves? We want to hear from you on how this is playing out. Email us at westwingtips@ Did someone forward this email to you? Subscribe! POTUS PUZZLER Which president signed the nation's first federal income tax into law? (Answer at bottom.) WHO'S IN, WHO'S OUT NOT A TAR HEEL: The director of Voice of America, MICHAEL ABRAMOWITZ, has been terminated after refusing to accept a demotion in North Carolina, according to court documents released Monday. JOHN ZADROZNY, a senior adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, VOA's parent company, said in a letter that Abramowitz's 'failure to accept a directed geographic reassignment warrants removal from your position for such cause as to promote the efficiency of the Federal service.' In July, acting USAGM CEO VICTOR MORALES notified Abramowitz that he was being reassigned to the VOA station in Greenville, North Carolina, and being given a new position. In his sworn declaration, Abramowitz said that the rationale for sending him to North Carolina 'does not make sense.' 'I understand that Defendants have indicated that they only plan to broadcast in four languages at VOA (Mandarin, Farsi, Pashto and Dari),' he wrote. 'But the Greenville station, which has historically provided shortwave radio broadcasts mainly to West Africa and Latin America, does not serve countries that speak any of those languages.' Abramowitz is the main plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Trump administration after the president issued an executive order dismantling USAGM. 'My efforts are not about holding onto a government job, but instead about upholding the rule of law and preserving the Voice of America, which is so important to the national security of the United States,' Abramowitz wrote in a message to VOA staff Monday. KARI LAKE, who serves as USAGM senior adviser, told West Wing Playbook that 'We're in good faith union negotiations. This is part of the process.' WE'RE HIRING: The National Weather Service has received permission to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians months after the agency faced sweeping DOGE-led cuts, CNN's ANDREW FREEDMAN reports. The new hiring number includes 126 new positions that will apply to 'front-line mission critical' personnel, a NOAA official told CNN. Musk Radar FIVE THINGS UNDONE: The White House today officially ended a program which required federal employees to summarize five weekly achievements in emails, our NICOLE MARKUS and Sophia report. The mandate was originally introduced in February by ELON MUSK as part of an effort to trim the federal workforce. Office of Personnel Management Director SCOTT KUPOR said in a statement that OPM informed agency leads that it would no longer 'manage' the process 'nor utilize it internally.' 'At OPM, we believe that managers are accountable to staying informed about what their team members are working on and have many other existing tools to do so,' Kupor said. Agenda Setting ZELDIN'S ON A HEATER: The EPA is preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants aimed at assisting low- and moderate-income families to install solar panels on their homes, NYT's MAXINE JOSELOW reports. The agency is drafting termination letters to 60 nonprofit groups and state agencies that received the grants under the 'Solar for All' program, with the goal of sending the letters by the end of this week. It's the latest move by the Trump administration to claw back billions of dollars in grants awarded under former President JOE BIDEN's Inflation Reduction Act. Representatives for the EPA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. REVERSING COURSE: Months after the Trump administration said it axed a multibillion-dollar grant program for disaster protection, administration officials said in a court document that it did not actually cancel the program, POLITICO's E&E News' THOMAS FRANK reports. In April, the administration canceled the grant program called Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, and removed all $4.1 billion from the BRIC account. But in a declaration last month for a court case challenging the move, FEMA acting administrator DAVID RICHARDSON said, 'FEMA has not ended the BRIC program, contrary to publicity otherwise.' He acknowledged his agency's role in that publicity, saying, 'Despite FEMA's public announcements … FEMA/DHS has not ended BRIC.' When presented with the declaration, even BRIC supporters struggled to understand it. 'The information that has been out so far seems to contradict [the declaration], and we want to make sure we're understanding FEMA's intention. This is happy news if this is the case,' said MARY JO FLYNN-NEVINS, head of governmental affairs for the International Association of Emergency Managers, which strongly supports the BRIC program. WHERE'S THE MONEY, LEBOWSKI? The investigative arm of Congress found that the National Institutes of Health illegally withheld funds lawmakers required it to spend, our ERIN SCHUMAKER reports. The Government Accountability Office today said that the Trump administration failed to follow the requirements of the Impoundment Control Act, which determines when a president can cancel funding appropriated by Congress. In implementing a communications pause earlier this year at HHS, and in complying with Trump's various executive orders, the 'NIH withheld funds from obligation and expenditure,' according to the GAO's report. The watchdog also found that HHS failed to inform Congress or the GAO of whether the money is being spent in another way. OUR LIPS ARE SEALED: Defense Secretary PETE HEGSETH has banned officials at a missile defense conference in Alabama this week from discussing the president's favorite weapon system: the multibillion-dollar Golden Dome missile shield, our JOE GOULD and JACK DETSCH report. It follows new rules from the Pentagon that ban personnel from participating in think tank and research organization events. Hegseth's public affairs office told organizers of the Space and Missile Defense Symposium to keep the Golden Dome off the agenda. The Pentagon, when asked for comment, pointed to a July announcement about the creation of an office to oversee the missile shield's development. What We're Reading A Terrible Five Days for the Truth (The Atlantic's David A. Graham) 'Unlike Anything We've Seen': The Energy Industry is Counting on the AI Boom (POLITICO's Debra Kahn) A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan Lair (NYT's David Enrich, Matthew Goldstein, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Steve Eder) POTUS PUZZLER ANSWER President ABRAHAM LINCOLN signed the first federal income tax into law on this date in 1861 in a rush to finance the Civil War. Lincoln's tax imposed a 3 percent tax on annual incomes over $800.
