Posted on 07/12/2018 8:14:17 AM PDT by Ennis85
As the son of immigrants, Donald Trump has his own special relationship with the United Kingdom.
His mother, Mary MacLeod, was born and raised in the village of Tong, on the Outer Hebridean island of Lewis, on Scotland's wild and beautiful north-western fringe.
A less Trumpian upbringing is hard to imagine. Mary's pebble-dashed home was modest to say the least, the traditions of the island strictly and austerely Presbyterian.
Lewis is not a place of multiple marriages and glittering golden towers. It owes more to Calvin than to Mammon, more to Wittenberg than to Vegas.
On Sundays not so many years ago, swings in the island's play parks were chained up. Ferries could not dock, flights were not allowed to land.
Mr Trump is not scheduled to visit Lewis this Sabbath or any other day. He talks rarely and in scant detail about his British mother, who emigrated to New York as a "domestic" in the 1930s, preferring to stress the influence of his hard-driving German father, Fred Trump.
Instead the president and his wife Melania Trump will travel to Trump Turnberry, down the water from Glasgow on the Ayrshire coast, one of his two Scottish golf resorts, where the first couple will stay from Friday until Sunday when they depart for a high-stakes summit in Helsinki.
White House aides won't comment on whether Mr Trump will play golf during his visit, saying only that he will use the time to prepare for the meeting in Finland with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
But the weather forecast is good - Scotland is enjoying its best summer in living memory - and the links at the newly refurbished complex will surely prove inviting.
Before he can pick up his clubs, though, duty calls in the form of queen and prime minister.
“There can be only one.”
Surely our President should play a round or two at his sparkling course in such fine weather. Refreshed, he can then go a round or two with Putin, who fancies himself a man’s man. It will be another win for the USA.
I sorta skimmed the article, who gives a F where he is from? He is trying to prevent us to being overwhelmed by the Islamic tide, it is time to mount your horses and go on a crusade, kill ever mother one of them.
I was born in the UK, but glad it was on a USAF base and I am a US citizen, the UK has bent over.
He should tell Teresa May, sorry I have a date with Tommy Robison, go fly a kite bitch.
He should play a round of golf at Carnoustie right before the British Open.
England is slowly being colonized and they are still butt hurt over losing in the World Cup. The President Trump visit must depress them more but they have their stupid blimp to cheer them up.
Too bad. Was really hoping he would snub the UK.
You must have put the link in the wrong box when you posted. Here it is live:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44788849
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