'Scotland is already great.' Protesters troll Trump on his golfing trip

[Dulcinea]

(NPR) EDINBURGH, Scotland — As President Trump kicked off a weekend of golfing in his late mother's home country, hundreds of protesters rallied outside his resorts and in cities across Scotland — abseiling off a bridge, waving Palestinian flags and chanting for the U.S. president to be deported.

At a demonstration on Saturday outside the U.S. consulate in the capital Edinburgh, one protester held Scottish bagpipes in one arm, and a sign in the other. "At least this bag of hot air serves a purpose," it read. Another waved a banner saying "Scotland is already great"— a riff off Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan.

Protester Niamh Cunvin-Smith, 25, who traveled to the consulate protest from Inverness, asked, "Why on earth is this convicted felon allowed to come into our country and play golf when the people do not like him?"

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/26/g-s1-79744/scotland-protesters-anti-trump-golf

[livetohike]

1. Hopefully The Felon will receive this reception

everywhere he goes.

[samnsara]

2. My son in law is from Aberdeen and when i saw those protest signs I had

...to call him to translate some of the words for me

[ificandream]

3. How a Scottish newspaper "welcomed" Trump. :)

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. These are some of the nicknames the Scots have come up with for him:

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