Trump warns 'there'll be no Europe left' before immediately hitting golf course

Trump waves as he noodles his way around his links in Turnberry (Picture: EPA)

Donald Trump is following up his dire warnings about the future of Europe by cracking on with the real business of his trip to Scotland: a few rounds of golf.

The US President landed at Prestwick Airport in Ayrshire yesterday evening for his first UK visit since returning to the White House in January.

It took only a few minutes after stepping off Air Force One for Trump to begin predicting doom for the West due to immigration.

He told reporters: ‘On immigration,you better get your act together. You’re not going to have Europe anymore,you’ve got to get your act together.’

The President claimed nobody had entered the US last month before describing the situation faced by Europe as a ‘horrible invasion’.

His British mini-break has begun with a day of golf at his Turnberry course on the Ayrshire coast.

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Craig Munro breaks down Westminster chaos into easy to follow insight,walking you through what the latest policies mean to you. Sent every Wednesday. Sign up here.More serious discussions with leaders including Prime Minister Keir Starmer,Scottish First Minister John Swinney and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will come on Sunday and Monday.Police in Scotland are bracing for a major operation as protesters gather at a number of spots Trump is expected to visit on his brief tour.Demonstrators gathering outside a US government building in Edinburgh (Picture: Scott Heppell/AFP)The presidential motorcade,containing more than two dozen vehicles,passed a small protest on its way into Turnberry yesterday evening.But demonstrations have swelled throughout today near the Ayrshire golf course,outside the US Consulate General’s office in Edinburgh,and in central Aberdeen.Among the hundreds of attendees at the Aberdeen protest was Maggie Chapman,a north-east Scotland MSP for the Greens.She told the crowd: ‘[Trump] believes that climate change isn’t real,he believes that cutting services for those in the world with the least is the right thing to do.‘We say no to all of those things,not in our name,never in our name.’A young protester awaiting the President’s arrival yesterday (Picture: Robert Perry/PA Wire)Later,the entourage will travel east across Scotland to Aberdeen and another of Trump’s links courses near Balmedie,on the coast north of the city.Scottish Secretary Ian Murray,who met the President at Prestwick just after he arrived at around 8.30pm yesterday,said Trump’s first words after stepping off the plane were: ‘It’s great to be here,I always love standing on the soil of Scotland.’Murray added: ‘I said,“I hope you’re looking forward to a bit of downtime with some golf this weekend”,and he said,“Yes”.‘And I said,“Well,we’ve whipped up a bit of a wind for you to make it a bit more competitive”,and he went,“I’m looking forward to it”.’Maggie Chapman MSP speaking at Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen (Picture: Nick Forbes/PA Wire)Police snipers on the roof of the Trump Turnberry hotel (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)Trump is expected to meet with von der Leyen tomorrow in an effort to thrash out a trade deal between the EU and the US.The EU has been one of the biggest targets of the tariff campaign from the White House since dramatic new trade measures were announced at the beginning of April.Starmer is understood to be travelling to Scotland on Monday for a meeting with the President,where the finer details of the UK’s trade deal with the US are likely to be discussed.Speaking at Prestwick yesterday,Trump said: ‘I like your Prime Minister,he’s slightly more liberal than I am – as you probably heard – but he’s a good man. He got a trade deal done.’He also suggested the meeting would be taking place this evening,which is not believed to be accurate.