Trump to visit Scotland and will open second golf course there
發佈日期: 2025-07-25 20:33
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U.S. President Donald Trump will visit Scotland this week which will be a homecoming of sorts, but he's likely to get a mixed reception.
Tracey Furniss reports.
Trump has had a long and at times rocky relationship with the country where his mother grew up in a humble house on the windswept Isle of Lewis, one of the Outer Hebrides off Scotland's northwest coast.
Born in 1912, Trump's mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, was born near the town of Stornaway, "which is serious Scotland," Trump said in 2017.
She was raised in a large Scots Gaelic-speaking family and left for New York in 1930.
Trump famously bought the Turnberry golf course in Ayr which is now called Trump Turnberry.
Security is tight for the U.S. President's upcoming visit. But not everyone is happy with his "homecoming".
PATRICIA SLOAN, Local resident: "He probably will have Scottish heritage. It's not anything that I would be proud and welcome for him to engage in more, because I wouldn't want to associate with him. I have Scottish-Irish descent and stuff, so I just wouldn't, yeah, I don't, I'm not proud that he's Scottish heritage."
ALAN, 69-year-old local resident: "'Waste of time, total waste of time. We don't want him here."
Trump still has relatives on Lewis, and last visited in 2008 spending a few minutes in the plain gray house where his mother grew up.
Trump's golf course was approved in 2012. Some grander plans were never realised, such as building 500 houses and a 450-room hotel and the course has never made a profit.
But undeterred, Trump is opening a second golf course this summer named MacLeod Course in honour of his mother.
