She is giving a teetotaler an item that was used traditionally for drinking alcohol...usually whiskey
An excellent point. The staff should do better work in UK.
And giving a trim model a hamper full of food - but somebody will eat it.
For centuries Highland chiefs would exchange them as a token of hospitality and kinship. It is a nod to Trump’s Scottish heritage. He isn’t literally expected to drink from it. Very few people drink from a quaich these days. It’s symbolic.
From the articleOriginating in the Highlands, where clan chiefs prized them as a token of hospitality, they have been used across Scotland for centuries as a cup of friendship.What do you give the man who (actually does) have everything? You give a symbol of friendship.Today it is rarely used as a drinking vessel, but rather it is a symbol of “welcome and kinship”.
Given that Mr. Trump is not (unless he were to buy it from the US government) entitled actually to personally retain a gift from a foreign leader, this sounds like an excellent choice by the British government.
Mr. Trump will do well if he finds an equally appropriate gift to exchange.
I’m sure it will work equally well with pepsi.