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Police preparing for Donald Trump to visit Scotland

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Police have confirmed they are preparing for a potential visit by US President Donald Trump to Scotland later this month.

He is expected to visit his new golf course in Aberdeenshire when it opens, though it is understood there will be no private meeting with King Charles.

Trump will also make a full state visit to the UK later in the year, most likely in September.

Assistant chief constable Emma Bond of Police Scotland: “Planning is under way for a potential visit to Scotland later this month by the President of the United States.”

She added: “While official confirmation has not yet been made, it is important that we prepare in advance for what would be a significant policing operation.”

If the visit goes ahead, it would be the first time Donald Trump travels to Scotland since his victory in the US election.

His last visit to Scotland as president in 2018 required a major security operation with thousands protesting in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

Eric Trump and his father broke ground on the 18-hole links MacLeod Course at the Trump International resort in Menie in 2023.

Trump International claimed the new course – named after Trump’s Lewis-born mother, Mary – would feature the “largest sand dunes in Scotland” and form “the greatest 36 holes in golf” alongside the original course, completed in 2012.

The resort has prompted controversy in the past – five years ago the dunes at Menie lost their status as a nationally-important protected environment.

But Trump International claimed the new course was “one of the most environmentally friendly and sustainable” ever built.


BBC News

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