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The presidential hurricane had swept through southern England, uprooting protocols, rattling institutions and leaving politicians with a sense of whiplash. As the disrupter-in-chief’s MV-22 Osprey helicopters departed, Theresa May could be forgiven for breathing a sigh of relief familiar to any sorely tested host.
This was a far cry from Bill Clinton strolling through Hyde Park during his presidential swansong or Barack Obama dropping in on a primary school in Newport. For Trump, making his first visit to the UK as president, there was no park and no school, no 10 Downing Street, no Houses of Parliament and no Buckingham Palace. Nor was this the state visit that May had promised when she dashed to Washington shortly after Trump took office. The tens of thousands of people marching in the streets of London might have had something to do with it.
Britain may have to humbly accept, however, that for Trump it was a mere stopover between hammering the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, at the Nato summit in Brussels and renewing his warm relationship with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, in Helsinki.
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- By Gus Leonisky at 14 Jul 2018 - 7:11pm
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gone golfin'
Donald Trump is expected to play golf at his resort in Ayrshire later as further protests against his visit to the UK take place.
The US president arrived in Scotland on Friday evening after completing his two-day "working trip".
Mr Trump - whose mother was Scottish - and his wife Melania are spending the weekend at his Turnberry hotel.
A "national demonstration" is due take place at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on Saturday.
The president's visit to Scotland has been accompanied by a major security operation. Police insisted they wanted to strike a balance between "protection and public safety and the public's right to peacefully protest".
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-44829539
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Donald Trump's first official visit to the UK as president comes between a NATO summit in Brussels and a meeting on Monday in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
During a brief visit to Britain, on the heels of a tense NATO summit in Brussels, President Donald Trump scrambled to undo the damage caused by an interview in which he questioned Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans, warning they might hamper a bilateral trade deal with the United States, The Independent wrote.
At a joint news conference with Theresa May after the two had held one-on-one talks at the PM's Chequers country retreat 40 miles from London, Trump heaped praise on May calling her “smart”, “tough”, “capable” and “incredible.
“I would much rather have her as my friend than my enemy,” he added.
Mentioning reports he had heard about Theresa May’s EU withdrawal plan threatening to torpedo a proposed trade deal between the two countries, Trump noted that, after reading May’s Brexit white paper, and being brought “up to speed” by the prime minister, he was convinced that such a deal “will absolutely be possible.”
Trump described Brexit as a "very tough situation… between the borders and the entries into the countries and all of the things."
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https://sputniknews.com/europe/201807141066342291-trump-uk-visit/