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Donald Trump, now the presumptive Republican nominee for US president, has confirmed he is to visit the UK later this month to attend the official reopening of his hotel and golf resort in Scotland. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in the US presidential election, has confirmed he is to visit the UK later this month to attend the official reopening of his hotel and golf resort in Scotland.
The billionaire property developer is to visit the Turnberry hotel at the golf course in Ayrshire on 24 June for its official relaunch following a £200m redevelopment.The billionaire property developer is to visit the Turnberry hotel at the golf course in Ayrshire on 24 June for its official relaunch following a £200m redevelopment.
Trump’s announcement throws up the question of whether David Cameron will agree to meet him, since the event comes the day after the UK’s referendum on European Union membership on 23 June – a vote some polls suggest the prime minister faces losing. Trump’s announcement throws up the question of whether David Cameron will agree to meet him, as the visit comes the day after the UK’s referendum on European Union membership on 23 June – a vote some polls suggest the prime minister faces losing.
The Turnberry hotel, which Trump bought in 2014 for £35m, opened to guests on 1 June. It features a £3,500-a-night presidential suite and, from August this year, the Donald J Trump ballroom – “the most luxurious meeting facility anywhere in Europe” according to his publicists. The Turnberry hotel, which Trump bought in 2014 for £35m, opened to guests on Wednesday. It features a £3,500-a-night presidential suite and, from August, the Donald J Trump ballroom – “the most luxurious meeting facility anywhere in Europe”, according to his publicists.
“Very exciting that one of the great resorts of the world, Turnberry, will be opening today after a massive £200m investment. I own it and I am very proud of it,” Trump said in a statement.“Very exciting that one of the great resorts of the world, Turnberry, will be opening today after a massive £200m investment. I own it and I am very proud of it,” Trump said in a statement.
He will not be officially confirmed as Republican nominee until the party’s convention in July.
Cameron has publicly deplored the tycoon’s attacks on Mexican migrants and Muslims. On 5 May, Cameron said Trump deserved respect for triumphing in the Republican primary race but would not retract his earlier statement that Trump’s attacks on Muslims were “stupid, divisive and wrong”.
Cameron said during last week’s G7 summit in Japan that there was a tradition for candidates to visit Europe. He said there were no dates arranged, but he was happy to meet Trump if he came.
This will be the US presidential candidate’s first visit to Scotland, where he owns two golf resorts, since coming under concerted attack from across the political spectrum for his views on Muslims and on Mexican migrants to the US.
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, stripped Trump’s honorary title as a “GlobalScot” business ambassador in December 2015 – a title given to him by the then Labour first minister Jack McConnell in 2006 after the property magnate promised to spend £300m on his first Scottish golf resort in Aberdeenshire.
The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen on the same day revoked Trump’s honorary doctorate, awarded in 2010 in recognition of his “business acumen and entrepreneurial vision”.
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Trump has made great play of his mother’s roots in Stornoway in the Western Isles, although the tycoon has only visited once and very briefly as he prepared for a bitterly fought planning inquiry for the Aberdeenshire golf resort.
He held a press conference at Turnberry in July last year to declare he would “unite the world” if he became president.
“I think I would be a great uniter. I think that I would have great diplomatic skills; I would be able to get along with people very well,” Trump said. “I had great success [in my life]. I get along with people. People say, ‘Oh gee, it might be tough from that standpoint’, but actually I think the world would unite if I were the leader of the United States.”