Can his golf course 'further' US-UK relations? Trump will use meeting with prime minister to try
Now he's getting the chance to prove it.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is meeting Monday with Trump at a golf property owned by the president's family near Turnberry in southwestern Scotland — then later traveling to Abderdeen, on the country's northeast coast, where there's another Trump golf course and a third is opening soon.
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