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USA Today
6 hours ago
- Business
- USA Today
Where are Trump's golf courses? See list after new course opening in Scotland
President Donald Trump capped his trip to Scotland with a ribbon-cutting at his newest 18-hole course. The new course at the Trump International Scotland near Aberdeen is set to officially open Aug. 13, according to the website. Trump's sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., executive vice presidents of the Trump Organization, joined the president at the July 29 course opening event. "We'll play it very quickly, and then I go back to D.C. and we put out fires all over the world," Trump said in his remarks at the event. "We stopped a war. But we've stopped about five wars, so that's much more important than playing golf. As much as I like it, it's much more important." Trump had said ahead of his trip that he was traveling to talk trade, and he did announce a deal with the European Union ahead of his looming tariff deadline. But he traveled with family not only to the resort near Aberdeen, but also to the Trump Turnberry resort on Scotland's west coast. Where else could the president travel to play golf at one of his own courses? More: Viral video showing Trump in Scotland leads to golf cheating accusations Where are the Trump Golf courses located? According to the website, here is where Trump Golf has properties abroad: Where are the Trump National Golf courses in the U.S.? Here is the list, according to the website: Eric, Don Jr. join President Trump at golf course opening in Scotland The president's eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, manage the Trump Organization, and Donald Trump still owns it. Ethics have long been a concern for the potential for the family to profit off the presidency. Eric Trump, his wife Lara Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and his girlfriend Bettina Anderson all flew to Aberdeen from the other side of Scotland with the president and the U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the White House said. "We had an unlimited budget, and we exceeded it," Eric said of the new golf course. "This was his Mona Lisa." Trump's mother Mary Anne MacLeod was born in Scotland and emigrated to New York in the 1930s. The Trump resort near Aberdeen has buildings with her name. Contributing: Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY Kinsey Crowley is the Trump Connect reporter for the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at kcrowley@ Follow her on X and TikTok @kinseycrowley or Bluesky at @
Los Angeles Times
6 hours ago
- Politics
- Los Angeles Times
Trump caps his Scottish visit by opening a new golf course and promoting his family brand
BALMEDIE, Scotland — Golf and Scotland are close to President Trump's heart, and both were in play Tuesday as he opened a new eponymous course in the land of his mother's birth, capping a five-day trip that was largely about promoting his family's luxury properties. Dressed for golf and sporting a white cap that said 'USA,' Trump appeared to be in such a jolly mood that he even lavished rare praise — instead of the usual insults — on the contingent of journalists who had gathered to cover the event. 'Today they're not fake news,' Trump said. 'Today they're wonderful news.' The golf-focused trip gave him a chance to escape Washington's summer heat, but he could not avoid questions about Jeffrey Epstein, the deepening food crisis in Gaza or other issues that trailed him across the Atlantic. The trip itself teed up another example of how the Republican president has used the White House to promote his brand. Trump on Monday expressed concern over the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza and urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to do more to get food aid to hungry Palestinians. Asked if he agreed with Netanyahu's assertion Sunday that 'there is no policy of starvation in Gaza and there is no starvation in Gaza,' Trump said he didn't know but added, 'I mean, based on television, I would say not particularly because those children look very hungry.' The president also offered a reason why he banished Epstein from his private club in Palm Beach, Florida, years ago, saying it was because the disgraced financier 'stole people that worked for me.' A top White House aide said last week that Epstein was kicked out for being a 'creep.' Flanked by sons Eric and Donald Jr., Trump counted '1-2-3' and wielded a pair of golden scissors to cut a red ribbon marking the ceremonial opening of the new Trump course in the village of Balmedie on Scotland's northern coast. 'This has been an unbelievable development,' Trump said before the ribbon cutting. He thanked Eric, who designed the course, saying his work on the project was 'truly a labor of love for him.' Eric Trump said the course was his father's 'passion project.' Immediately afterward, Trump, Eric Trump and two professional golfers teed off on the first hole with plans to play a full 18 before the president returns to Washington on Tuesday night. Trump rarely allows the news media to watch his golf game, though video journalists and photographers often find him along the course whenever he plays. Trump's shot had a solid sound and soared straight, high and relatively far. Clearly pleased, he turned to the cameras and did an almost half bow. 'He likes the course, ladies and gentlemen' Eric Trump said. Billed as the 'Greatest 36 Holes in Golf,' the Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, is hosting back-to-back weekend tournaments before it begins offering rounds to the public on Aug. 13. Trump worked some official business into the trip by holding talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and reaching a trade framework for tariffs between the U.S. and the European Union's 27 member countries — though scores of key details remain to be settled. But the trip itself was centered around golf, and the presidential visit served to raise the new course's profile. Trump's assets are in a trust and his sons are running the family business while he's in the White House. Any business generated at the course will ultimately enrich the president when he leaves office, though. The new golf course will be the third owned by the Trump Organization in Scotland. Trump bought Turnberry in 2014 and owns another course near Aberdeen that opened in 2012. Trump golfed at Turnberry on Saturday, as protesters took to the streets, and on Sunday before meeting there in the afternoon with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The occasion blended two things dear to Trump: golf and Scotland. His mother, the late 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,' Trump said Tuesday. She visited 'religiously once a year' during the summer with his sisters, he said. Perhaps the only mood-buster for Trump are the wind turbines that are part of a nearby windfarm and can be seen from around the new course. Trump, who often speaks about his hatred of windmills, sued in 2013 to block construction of the wind farm but lost the case and was eventually ordered to pay legal costs for filing the lawsuit – a matter that still enrages him more than a decade later. Trump said on a new episode of the New York Post's 'Pod Force One' podcast that the 'ugly windmills' are a 'shame' and are 'really hurting' Scotland. The interview was conducted over the weekend and released Tuesday. 'It kills the birds, ruins the look. They're noisy,' he said, asserting that the value of real estate around them also plummets. 'I think it's a very bad thing. Environmentally, it's horrible.' Weissert and Superville write for the Associated Press. Superville reported from Washington.
Straits Times
6 hours ago
- Business
- Straits Times
'Ugly' windmills, 'nasty' London mayor and golf: moments from Trump UK trip
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Eric Trump applauds as US President Donald Trump tees off, on the day of the grand opening of Trump International Golf Links Aberdeen in Balmedie, Aberdeen. BALMEDIE, United Kingdom - US President Donald Trump spent five days in Scotland, playing golf, sealing a major trade deal with the EU and weighing in on global conflicts from Gaza to Ukraine. Here are five talking points from his visit: Golf diplomacy Trump's luxury golf courses in Scotland became impromptu hubs for international diplomacy, in a blatant blurring of politics and his family's personal interests. In front of the world's media, Trump and his son Eric showcased their new golf course opened on July 29 in Balmedie, northeastern Scotland. Eric Trump hailed the new course as his father's 'Mona Lisa' masterpiece. The two courses at Balmedie would be 'the greatest 36 holes anywhere on earth', he said, before they teed off with a stunning view as a backdrop. The US leader also spent time showing off the restored ballroom in his Turnberry resort on the southwestern Scottish coast, where he sealed a deal setting 15-per cent tariffs on EU exports to the States. Gaza and Ukraine Perhaps it was the fresh Scottish air, but Trump signalled sudden shifts in his positions on the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine during a long, rambling press conference on Monday with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Having sought since the start of his second term to end the international isolation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the US leader declared he was now 'not so interested in talking (to him) anymore'. He gave the Russian leader 10 to 12 days to end the war in Ukraine, slashing a 50-day deadline set on July 14. And he contradicted his staunch ally Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying there was 'real starvation' in Gaza, where Israel is battling Hamas militants. Trump announced the United States was setting up food centres in the Palestinian territory, adding: 'We have to get the kids fed.' Starmer charmer Trump has been known to publicly castigate some world leaders, notably Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an Oval Office dressing down in February. But he was oozing charm after waiting on the steps of his ornate Turnberry resort like the lord of the manor to greet Keir Starmer on Monday. 'We want to make the prime minister happy,' Trump proclaimed. He also lavished praise on Starmer's wife, Victoria, who accompanied the UK premier, calling her the 'First Lady'. 'She's a respected person all over the United States,' Trump said, musing that he had better not say more or he would get himself 'into trouble'. Starmer was later treated to a flight on Air Force One and the presidential helicopter Marine One – a rare privilege for foreign leaders. 'Windmills' Trump hates 'windmills', fuming at the power-generating turbines erected off the coast of his two Scottish golf resorts, which he says spoil the view. He has fought for years against a new wind farm off the coast of Aberdeen. 'It destroys the beauty of your fields, your plains and your waterways,' Trump said, denouncing the 'ugly monsters all over the place' while advocating for oil and gas power. But Starmer, whose government has committed to reach net zero in carbon gas emissions by 2050, calmly replied: 'We believe in a mix.' 'Obviously, oil and gas is going to be with us for a very long time, and that'll be part of the mix, but also wind, solar, increasingly nuclear,' he said. UK politics The US leader dismissed London mayor Sadiq Khan as 'a nasty person' when asked whether he would visit London during his state visit set for September, following a long-running feud. Starmer offered a defence of sorts, telling the US leader: 'He's a friend of mine, actually.' But doubling down, Trump concluded: 'I think he's done a terrible job. But I would certainly visit London.' Almost in the same breath he gave a thumbs-up to Starmer's political rival, Nigel Farage, whose anti-immigrant party Reform UK is surging in the polls, pushing Labour into second place. 'I happen to like both men. I like this man a lot, and I like Nigel,' Trump said, adding: 'They're both good men,' but admitting: 'I don't know the politics over here.' He also addressed the bitter debate about thousands of irregular migrants arriving in the UK on small boats across the Channel. Starmer was 'doing a fantastic thing' if he was tackling immigration, Trump said, highlighting his own crackdown on migrants crossing into the United States over the Mexico border. 'I know nothing about the boats,' Trump acknowledged, before adding: 'The boats are loaded up with bad people... because, you know, other countries don't send their best, they send people that they don't want.' AFP
9 hours ago
- Politics
Trump caps his Scottish visit by opening a new golf course
BALMEDIE, Scotland -- U.S. President Donald Trump opened a new golf course bearing his name in Scotland on Tuesday, capping a five-day foreign trip designed to promote his family's luxury properties and play golf. 'Let's go. 1-2-3,' Trump said before he used a golden pair of scissors to cut a red ribbon and fireworks popped to mark the ceremonial opening of the new Trump course in the village of Balmedie on Scotland's northern coast. 'This has been an unbelievable development,' Trump said beforehand. He thanked his son Eric for his work on the project, saying it was 'truly a labor of love for him.' Son Don Jr. also was present. Eric Trump said the course was a 'passion project' for his father. Immediately after the opening, Trump, Eric Trump and two professional golfers teed off on the first hole. Trump rarely allows the news media to watch his golf game, though video journalists and photographers often find him along the course wherever he plays. Trump planned to play 18 holes before he arrives back in Washington on Tuesday night. The overseas jaunt let Trump escape Washington's sweaty summer heat and humidity while questions about the case of Jeffrey Epstein followed him across the Atlantic Ocean. But it added to a lengthy list of ways the Republican president has used the White House to promote his brand. Billing itself as the 'Greatest 36 Holes in Golf,' the Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, was designed by Eric Trump. The course is hosting a PGA Seniors Championship event later this week before it begins offering rounds to the public on Aug. 13. Signs promoting the event were seen all around the course on Tuesday, while temporary signage on the highway guided drivers onto the correct road. Golfers hitting the course at dawn as part of that event had to put their clubs through metal detectors as part of the security procedures for Trump's arrival. The day combined two things close to Trump's heart: golf and Scotland. His mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, was born on the Isle of Lewis and eventually went to New York. She died in 2000 at age 88. 'My mother loved Scotland,' Trump said Monday during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at another of his golf courses, Turnberry, on Scotland's southern coast. 'It's different when your mother was born here.' He appeared to be in such a good mood that he even praised the throng of journalist who had assembled to cover the event, saying there was no 'fake news' on the course. 'I didn't use the word 'fake news' one time, not one time,' Trump said. Trump worked some official business into the trip by holding talks with Starmer and reaching a trade framework for tariffs between the U.S. and the European Union's 27 member countries — though scores of key details remain to be settled. But the trip has featured a lot of golf, and the presidential visit is sure to raise the new course's profile. Trump's assets are in a trust, and his sons are running the family business while he's in the White House. Any business generated at the course will ultimately enrich the president when he leaves office, though. Visible from around the new course are towering wind turbines lining the coast, part of a nearby windfarm Trump sued to try to block construction of in 2013. He lost the case and was eventually ordered to pay legal costs for bringing it — and the issue still enrages him. During the meeting with Starmer, Trump called windmills 'ugly monsters' and suggested they were part of 'the most expensive form of energy.' 'I restricted windmills in the United States because they also kill all your birds,' Trump said. 'If you shoot a bald eagle in the United States, they put you in jail for five years. And windmills knock out hundreds of them. They don't do anything. Explain that.' Starmer said in the U.K, 'we believe in a mix' of energy, including oil, gas and renewables. The new golf course will be the third owned by the Trump Organization in Scotland. Trump bought Turnberry in 2014 and owns another course near Aberdeen that opened in 2012. Trump golfed at Turnberry on Saturday, as protesters took to the streets, and on Sunday. He invited Starmer, who famously doesn't golf, aboard Air Force One so the prime minister could get a private tour of his Aberdeen properties before Tuesday's ceremonial opening. 'Even if you play badly, it's still good,' Trump said of golfing on his course over the weekend. 'If you had a bad day on the golf course, it's OK. It's better than other days.'
Time of India
10 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
Trump caps his Scottish visit by opening a new golf course
U.S. President Donald Trump opened a new golf course bearing his name in Scotland on Tuesday, capping a five-day foreign trip designed to promote his family's luxury properties and play golf. "Let's go. 1-2-3," Trump said before he used a golden pair of scissors to cut a red ribbon and fireworks popped to mark the ceremonial opening of the new Trump course in the village of Balmedie on Scotland's northern coast. 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He thanked his son Eric for his work on the project, saying it was "truly a labor of love for him." Son Don Jr. also was present. Eric Trump said the course was a "passion project" for his father. Immediately after the opening, Trump, Eric Trump and two professional golfers teed off on the first hole. Trump rarely allows the news media to watch his golf game, though video journalists and photographers often find him along the course wherever he plays. Trump planned to play 18 holes before he arrives back in Washington on Tuesday night. Live Events The overseas jaunt let Trump escape Washington's sweaty summer heat and humidity while questions about the case of Jeffrey Epstein followed him across the Atlantic Ocean. But it added to a lengthy list of ways the Republican president has used the White House to promote his brand. Billing itself as the "Greatest 36 Holes in Golf," the Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, was designed by Eric Trump. The course is hosting a PGA Seniors Championship event later this week before it begins offering rounds to the public on Aug. 13. Signs promoting the event were seen all around the course on Tuesday, while temporary signage on the highway guided drivers onto the correct road. Golfers hitting the course at dawn as part of that event had to put their clubs through metal detectors as part of the security procedures for Trump's arrival. The day combined two things close to Trump's heart: golf and Scotland. His mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, was born on the Isle of Lewis and eventually went to New York. She died in 2000 at age 88. "My mother loved Scotland," Trump said Monday during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at another of his golf courses, Turnberry, on Scotland's southern coast. "It's different when your mother was born here." He appeared to be in such a good mood that he even praised the throng of journalist who had assembled to cover the event, saying there was no "fake news" on the course. "I didn't use the word 'fake news' one time, not one time," Trump said. Trump worked some official business into the trip by holding talks with Starmer and reaching a trade framework for tariffs between the U.S. and the European Union's 27 member countries - though scores of key details remain to be settled. But the trip has featured a lot of golf, and the presidential visit is sure to raise the new course's profile. Trump's assets are in a trust, and his sons are running the family business while he's in the White House. Any business generated at the course will ultimately enrich the president when he leaves office, though. Visible from around the new course are towering wind turbines lining the coast, part of a nearby windfarm Trump sued to try to block construction of in 2013. He lost the case and was eventually ordered to pay legal costs for bringing it - and the issue still enrages him. During the meeting with Starmer, Trump called windmills "ugly monsters" and suggested they were part of "the most expensive form of energy." "I restricted windmills in the United States because they also kill all your birds," Trump said. "If you shoot a bald eagle in the United States, they put you in jail for five years. And windmills knock out hundreds of them. They don't do anything. Explain that." Starmer said in the U.K, "we believe in a mix" of energy, including oil, gas and renewables. The new golf course will be the third owned by the Trump Organization in Scotland. Trump bought Turnberry in 2014 and owns another course near Aberdeen that opened in 2012. Trump golfed at Turnberry on Saturday, as protesters took to the streets, and on Sunday. He invited Starmer, who famously doesn't golf, aboard Air Force One so the prime minister could get a private tour of his Aberdeen properties before Tuesday's ceremonial opening. "Even if you play badly, it's still good," Trump said of golfing on his course over the weekend. "If you had a bad day on the golf course, it's OK. It's better than other days." ___ Superville reported from Washington.
