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“So we’re going to the fight,” Mr. Trump said. “We have lots of fights going around the world, and I think we have a lot of good news coming soon about some of those fights, and we’ll see how it goes. But it’s been a it’s been an interesting weekend. I think we have some pretty good news coming on some of the conflicts.”

"At this point, he's essentially using the White House as an extension of the Trump Organization and letting the taxpayers pick up the bill," Jordan Libowitz, the Vice President for Communications at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told ABC News.

The administration has called Trump's visit a "working trip," and Trump is... See more

In 2020, ABC News confirmed that Woody Johnson, then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, told colleagues he was asked by Trump if he could persuade the British government to hold the British Open golf tournament at Turnberry. The British government later said Johnson never made a request to Scottish officials, and Trump denied asking Johnson to... See more

With Trump’s use of this visit to further his business interests already in the spotlight, Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, faced significant criticism after announcing that his government was in talks to provide £180,000 of public funding for the Aberdeenshire resort as it hosts the 2025 Nexo championship on the DP World Tour next month.

Praising the “great craftsmen” of Ayrshire on Scotland’s west coast, he described spending “probably $100m [£74m]” on the hotel: “We did a very great job. You see how beautiful it is?

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There is no suggestion that the Trump business has asked for anything specific from the Scottish government.

However, it is a matter of record that Scottish ministers awarded public funds to support a golf tournament to be played at Trump International, as the Aberdeenshire business is officially known.

That was announced in time for Donald Trump's... See more

Donald Trump has agreed a trade deal with the EU Commission president after he played a round of golf on the second full day of his visit to Scotland.

The US president shook hands on the deal with Ursula von der Leyen at his luxury Turnberry resort, saying: "It's going to bring us closer together... it's a partnership in a sense."

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen found herself at the centre of this unabashed "golf diplomacy" on Sunday, as she visited the US president's Turnberry course to seal an EU-US trade deal.

Criticised by some European political leaders as a capitulation by Brussels, the pair announced the pact to the world from a lavish ballroom named... See more