PROTESTS are being planned to coincide with Donald Trump meeting Prime Minister Keir Starmer at one of his Scottish golf courses.
A “festival of resistance” is set to be held near [[Donald Trump]]’s Aberdeenshire golf course on Monday afternoon.
The protest at The White Horse Inn, Balmedie, Aberdeen, is close to the Trump International Scotland golf resort and organisers said they object to the Scottish Government giving it £180,000 in public cash for the Nexo Championship next month.
Organiser of Stop Trump Scotland, Alena Ivanova, said: “As Donald Trump is expected to arrive at his Aberdeenshire golf course, residents and protesters are gathering in Balmedie from 3pm to continue the festival of resistance.
“This message is to Donald Trump but also our elected leaders preparing to meet him: there is no place for Trumpism in Scotland.
“They need to stand up to him instead of kowtowing to this bully – including by handing over hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayer money for a golf tournament hosted at Trump International even while he attempts to bully us with tariffs.
“In the vicinity of the golf course people will be making noise and using creative props to bring the message as close to home as possible – Donald Trump is not welcome here.”
John Swinney’s announcement over the weekend that Trump’s golf resort would get thousands from public coffers was met with fury by opponents.
Scottish Green leader Patrick Harvie said: “This shames Scotland. It's an embarrassing attempt to please a bully and shows the same craven attitude as [[Keir Starmer]]. We should be standing in solidarity with the people on the receiving end of [[Donald Trump]]’s regime.
"John Swinney had a choice to make. He could have stood up for the values of democracy and human rights. But instead he folded at the first test and used hundreds of thousands of pounds of our money to appease a far right billionaire fraudster.”
A Scottish Government spokesperson said: “We live in a society where groups and organisations have the democratic right to campaign and express their views about particular issues or public policy in a peaceful, democratic, and lawful manner.
“With the eyes of the world on Scotland, this funding was announced to help promote the 2025 Nexo Championship on the DP World Tour and further raise the profile of Aberdeenshire as a leading tourism and golf destination."
