Trump Takes Time Out to Open Scottish Golf Course

Friday, July 25, 2025

Donald Trump flies into Scotland later to visit two golf resorts which he owns in the country where his mother was born.

Posted by REDIAL at 10:31 PM | 22 COMMENTS | permalink

Stunning amount Trump's Scotland trip will cost taxpayers - largely to promote his golf courses there: report

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-- The Independent (@the-independent.com) Jul 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM

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Is Bribe Force One ready yet?

#1 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-25 01:55 PM

Pedo Whore can ---- off.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-25 05:34 PM

The bill for Trump's self-promotional tour will cost us taxpayers on the order of 10s of millions.

I heard Trump is a billionaire. Why the ---- can't he pay for it himself?

#3 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-07-25 11:10 PM

More from the cited article ...

... Even so, with Gaza and Ukraine in flames, the dollar on the slide and questions mounting about his ties to convicted ---------- Jeffrey Epstein, Trump's decision to focus on golf has raised eyebrows. ...

Well, yeah.

And, imo, rightfully so.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-25 11:45 PM

I heard Trump is a billionaire. Why the ---- can't he pay for it himself?

He's meeting the UK PM at some point, so it's a "business trip".

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-25 11:52 PM

"He's meeting the UK PM at some point, so it's a "business trip""

Tax oddity: if you're going out of town for a business trip, over half the time gone must be for business for it to qualify. But if you're going out of the country on a business trip...

...if less than a week, ANY business makes the entire trip deductible.

But if MORE than a week...75% must be business days to qualify! That's OVER 5 days/week average. It's a little easier on 2-3 week trips, since flight counts as work, but anything longer requires a 5-6 day work week.

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-07-26 12:03 AM

Like he cares about taxes. He doesn't pay them anyway. Is he still pretending to be not taking his ($400,000) salary like he did in his first term?

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-26 12:09 AM

@#7 ... Like he cares about taxes. ...

Bingo. But, that aside.

imo, the operative point here is ...

What does Pres Trump seem to be focusing upon?

Golf?

Increasing his wealth??

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-26 12:36 AM

Pres [then candidate] Trump ...

...
February 4, 2016
I love golf... but if I were in the White House ... I'd just want to stay in the White House and work my ass off.

March 14, 2016
If you're here at the White House, and you have so much work to do, why do you fly? Why do you leave so much?

August 6, 2016
I'm going to be working for you, I'm not going to have time to be playing golf.

August 25, 2016
I won't be playing golf.
...

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-26 01:05 AM

Pres [then candidate] Trump ...

That fact checks well.

#10 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-26 01:08 AM

@10

I try.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-26 01:25 AM

@#10

That aside, I have to ask...

That seems to be what the MAGA folk bought in to when they decided to support him back then.

Have their views changed since then?

Or ...

Is this yet another instance of Pres Trump telling his MAGA supporters to, if I may paraphrase, take a long hike off a short pier?

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-26 02:00 AM

Scottish newspaper headline about Trump visit referred to him as 'convicted US felon'?.

www.snopes.com

What did Scotland do to deserve a visit from the 300 lb sack of----------?

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-26 02:47 AM

The biggest grifter/douche/pervert in American history sure loves his golf.

#14 | Posted by cbob at 2025-07-26 06:42 AM

There's really nothing inherently wrong with golf itself as a game.
That said, it sure does seem to attract a colossal crowd of yappy, self-absorbed bores.
Who actually seem to think non-golfers actually ... oh, care.

#15 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-26 06:47 AM

Right, Doc, I didn't mean to imply that golf itself is a bad thing. Just noting that the fat cretin always seems to have time for a sport known as a symbol of leisure for a man of privilege.

Not to mention the perks he gets courtesy of taxpayers while flying to a foreign country on a personal trip for a business that he should be keeping at arm's length, Arnold Palmer's large wang notwithstanding.

#16 | Posted by cbob at 2025-07-26 07:36 AM

"There's really nothing inherently wrong with golf itself as a game."

I still play golf. A little. It's nice to get outdoors with friends.

But like Mark Twain once said, Golf CAN spoil a nice walk.

But pretty sure the preznit doesn't/can't walk 9 holes much less 18.

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-26 11:45 AM

Whatever he's there for, he still gets to bill the taxpayers for housing his Secret Service detail at his property.

#19 | Posted by morris at 2025-07-26 06:27 PM

...he still gets to bill the taxpayers for housing his Secret Service detail at his property.

I'm sure he's charging the taxpayers for HIM to stay there. He used to bill the government when he ate at his own hotel in DC.

#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-26 08:23 PM

Needy Trump Begged Obama to Play Golf at His Courses