Nicola Sturgeon has warned Donald Trump to avoid Scotland amid claims he’s to skip Joe Biden’s inauguration for a {golfing} break (Footage: PA/AP)
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has instructed Donald Trump to avoid his golf membership there, amid rumors he’s planning a visit on January 19. First Minister Sturgeon instructed a press convention on Tuesday: ‘I do not know what Donald Trump’s journey plans are, you’ll be glad to know.
‘I hope and count on…that the journey plan that he instantly has is to exit the White Home. However past that I don’t know. I do not know what Donald Trump’s journey plans are, you’ll be glad to know.
Sturegon added: ‘We’re not permitting individuals to return into Scotland with out an important objective proper now. And that might apply to him simply because it applies to anyone else. Coming to play golf is just not what I might take into account to be an important objective.’
She spoke after it was revealed Prestwick Airport had been instructed to organize for the arrival of a US army Boeing 757 on January 19. It sits round 15 miles north of Trump’s Turnbery golf resort, with the journey scheduled for the day earlier than Joe Biden is scheduled to be inaugurated because the forty sixth President of the US.
President Trump, pictured {golfing} in Virginia in November, owns a golf resort in Turberry on Scotland’s west coast (Image: AP)
No affirmation has been given as as to whether President Trump plans to be aboard the flight. He continues to contest final 12 months’s presidential election outcome, and make baseless claims that Biden gained by fraudulent means.
That refusal to concede the outcome additionally signifies that Trump has but to say whether or not he’ll attend Biden’s inauguration ceremony.
He’s rumored to be contemplating launching a marketing campaign for a 2024 presidential run on the identical day, though some sources near the president say he has lately cooled on this concept.
Scotland is at the moment in the midst of a draconian Covid lockdown which bans Scots from all however important journey. However the nation’s airports stay open, with the UK authorities advising individuals who arrive to quarantine.
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