- January 5, 2021
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President Trump will not be allowed to visit Scotland
Listen to this articleThe first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon said the US President Donald Trump will not be allowed to visit Scotland to play golf during Joe Biden’s inauguration. The US president was overwhelmingly defeated in November’s election. He was reportedly considering traveling to his Turnberry golf resort to avoid Biden being sworn into office. But Scotland’s first minister stressed it is illegal to travel in or out of the country without a valid reason and said, “Coming to play golf is not what I would consider being an essential purpose”. The White House has repeatedly refused to say what the outgoing president will do when Biden is inaugurated on 20th January. The Sunday Post that it prompted speculation about whether Trump will attend the ceremony”.
The outlet added, “But Prestwick Airport has been told to expect the arrival of a US military Boeing 757 aircraft previously used by Trump on 19th January”. Sturgeon suggested that Trump could travel to Scotland in order to avoid the inauguration, and said, “I have no idea what Donald Trump’s travel plans are, you’ll be glad to know. I hope and expect that – as everybody expects, not everybody necessarily will hope – that the travel plan immediately that he has is to exit the White House. But beyond that, I don’t know. We are not allowing people to come into Scotland without an essential purpose right now and that would apply to him, just as it applies to anybody else”.
Sturgeon added, “Coming to play golf is not what I would consider being an essential purpose”. On Monday, Trump declared he would fight like hell to hold on to the presidency and appealed to Republican politicians to reverse his election loss when they convene this week to confirm the Electoral College vote. It is noteworthy that President-elect Joe Biden won the presidency with 306 electoral votes to President Trump’s 232. He received 81,283,485 votes versus the incumbent’s 74,223,744, a margin of more than seven million in the popular vote.
