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DONALD TRUMP WOULD not be allowed to visit Scotland to play golf during Joe Biden’s inauguration, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
The US President, who was overwhelmingly defeated in November’s election, is reportedly considering travelling 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 to be an essential purpose.”
The White House has repeatedly refused to say what the outgoing president will do when Biden is inaugurated on 20 January, prompting speculation about whether Trump will attend the ceremony.
But Prestwick Airport has been told to expect the arrival of a US military Boeing 757 aircraft previously used by Trump on 19 January, according to the Sunday Post.
Asked about speculation that Trump could travel to Scotland in order to avoid the inauguration, Sturgeon 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 in to Scotland without an essential purpose right now and that would apply to him, just as it applies to anybody else.
“Coming to play golf is not what I would consider to be an essential purpose.”
On Monday night, 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.
Biden won the presidency with 306 electoral votes to Mr 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.
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This has just made my day. Well done Nicola.
@Denis Moynihan: she didn’t do anything really. Nobody is allowed in thats non essential, very simple
@Denis Moynihan: Michael Martin take note.
@Shnack: She did. She made my day.
@Shnack: credit where it’s due… unfortunately some people have gone so far down the bitter route they are unable to give it when it is earned.
Sturgeon has been a tour de force all through the Pandemic. Hats off
@Jamie Bent: my ar3s, doing it to be different and knows london will have to pay for her short comings
@Gerard Jennings: Scotland pays more per head of population into the UK coffers then any other region and has subsidised the UK paying more in then it gets out for the last 30 years. so she is absolutely right to use Scotland money for the people that live there
Lets hope Micky Martin displays the same backbone and doesn’t allow him to take over his other hidey-hole in Co Clare again. The last thing we need is another Golf-Gate before the rest of the world.
@Angela McCarthy: he will probably welcome him with open arms and join him for a few rounds
@Victoria: might even roll out the Diddly Eye Di Di’s
@Angela McCarthy: all golf courses are closed, so if they let him in to play golf while they are closed people would be rightly pissed off.
@Victoria: Im pretty sure the locals in Doonbeg Co Clare where his golf resort employs over 300 people would have no problem with a Trump visit.
@Angela McCarthy: Poor Meehall, heads you lose & harps you lose twice.
Barring DT from Shannon raises the issue of approving or not the USmilitary flights on which Shannon subsists.
Unless of course DT seeks refugee status on grounds of political oppression & physical danger once he is out of power.
Maybe we should grant him honorary citizenship to do the US a favour, & he could help advise Co.Clare Co.Council with his proclaimed business accumen.
Assuming he is not clapped in irons first of course, & declared bankrupt when the banks call in his IOUs.
Challenging predicament, but perhaps opportune gambit too.
Hole in one for Nicola sturgeon…
@David Dineen: And one in the hole for Donald Trump! :-)
@David Dineen: A Bowl of Caviar for Nicola. :)
Please, please let’s not embarrass ourselves by doffing our caps to Trump again.
@Teresa O’Donnell-Joyce: Absolutely.
Hats off to her. Legend.
@Padro Touche: He should come to Eire.
If there’s anything illegal in the US election it is caused by DT and/or his friends. So if there is anything to be found it’s because he knows where he friends planted in the first place. He would really like to rule like his friend Putin. If he was elected, which thankfully he wasn’t, he would be looking to change the laws to have a 3rd term! Don’t let him into Ireland either!
I’m sure Micheal and Leo will let him in here
@Mattress Dick: you might be joking but that’s exactly what could well happen considering how lax we are about people coming and going. They’ll have a welcome party and all at Shannon.
@BlaaBoy: jst what i was thinking. Me Hole would be out with him in Doonbeg
@BlaaBoy: jst what i was thinking. Me Hole would be out with him in Doonbeg
@Mattress Dick: Yeah, W ank ers!!
@Jack McGinn: why would your hole be out with him in Doonbeg?
@Mattress Dick: Leo and Trump? I don’t think so. Both have a thinly veiled contempt for each other.
We’ll done Ms Sturgeon, I hope Irish politicians grow some B 4lls and do the same.
Now Journal, let’s have a poll on this one.
Should Humpty Trumpty be allowed into the country to play golf during this pandemic.. non essential travel!!!
The dogs on the streets know that he is just trying to avoid the inevitable inauguration of President Biden.
Big Phil will be dusting off the Stetson and polishing the Firebird for an Irish visit
If Trump is no longer president at the moment that Biden is sworn in, then there is no basis for a US military plane to be flying Trump a moment longer. There’s no obligation on Biden, or the USAF to treat Trump as anything but another citizen. Has Trump thought this through?
@David A. Murray: has he ever thought anything through?
@David A. Murray: he has his own plane doesn’t need Air Force 1…however the security requirements would make it prohibitive…Irish government could deny entry on those grounds
@David A. Murray: not true he will still be called President too. They indefinitely have to give him a security detail. Saw Bush Snr fish in a row boat with a speed boat circling him and a helicopter above. Crowds of people looking at him. Very sad existence really.
@David A. Murray: he won’t ever be ‘just another citizen’ again. he will always retain the title of ‘Mr President’ and he will have Secret Service security for the rest of his natural life. The Secret service will address him as .Mr President’ , so suck it up and at least TRY to hide your obvious hyterical hatred.
@Lager Lout: If he is on a flifht it is called Airforce One or Marine one for the Helicopter. As soon as he stops being President of the USA, it becomes a normal flight. Then he loses his diplomatic pass.
Hope FG held into the phone number of that harp player, so that Leo can welcome him to Shannon instead of Scotland. Once Leo knows the world press would be looking to take a picture of “Where’s Donald” for when Biden is being sworn in, he’d be down to Doonbeg in a heartbeat.
Get in Nicola
Great news
He would have to self isolate for 10 day ma right?
Well done Nicola and I hope of he decides to try coming to Ireland he is stopped as well. Definitely non essential travel
Is there a transfer window in politics? Can we buy Nicola Sturgeon to run the country please?!
He’ll meet no such resistance from our twits
@Rob Gale: Of course he will Biden is an Irish Catholic President and is already planning a state visit. They do not want to upset him so nope he might get a flyover and a wave to the staff but nothing more
A owner of a business coming to view the status of operation I guess would be classed as essential
@Murr Paul: no it wouldnt. Golf courses are shut… End of.
Typical PA nothing story. No source for the comment regarding travel plans. Last time I looked he hasn’t conceded and has zero plans to.
@G.: the fact that he hasn’t conceded has no bearing on the presidency ! Trump is out on his ear on the 20th January. No if, ands or buts !!
@JAMES KELLY: The point for all the slow people is he has absolutely no plans to be in Scotland if he hasn’t conceded. media dis-information.
@G.: it comes from the Scottish Sunday Post
She’ll send him homeward to think again….
Ha ha I love it
Pick a windae, yer leavin’.
The problem seems to be that the Boeing 757 is due to land on the 19th January 2021 so at that stage he is still president of the USA . Will that have any bearing on Nicola Sturgeon’s approach to the problem of him landing in Scotland .
But celtic can fly off to dubai and return for ‘training’? move the goalposts much nicola?
Nicola Sturgeon deserves congratulations. Well done Scotland. Looser bad breath Donald is not needed.
Is he sick of winning yet ??
Ireland will let him in.
He’ll be welcomed here with opened arms. Heaven forbid we steps on his corns.
Well the wall is built to keep Trump and brexiteers out. (might need a bit of repair work) What did the Romans ever do for us.
Overwhelmingly defeated?! Wow. What a load of b.s. Check this out, this is ACTUALLY what’s happening…https://t.co/K0kd6ri3Pq…look at all the comments which have clickable links to primary source information. Shocked at the blatant lies in this “newspaper” which is about as credible as the National Enquirer, or maybe The Onion.
@Krista Clem O’Sullivan: You do realise that The Onion is satirical?
Michael Noonan will be at Shannon airport with the red carpet out, one half—t meeting another halfw—t , journal are perceiving this as toxic
No wonder he tried to buy Greenland. At this rate no one will want him lest he refuse to leave.
@Krista Clem O’Sullivan: You should have said itis ona Facebook page then we all would have believed you straight away.
So funny those pages, really are the best.
@Krista Clem O’Sullivan: That’s all BS. If you think any of that is evidence or proof of anything you need to buy some discernment gel for your head – it’s all hearsay and innuendo, nothing more and nothing substantiated. The USA is becoming a banana republic under Trump and by miscreants like yourself who don’t support the democratic process.
There may well be fraudulent voting but it’s by Trump and friends but they obviously did such a great job that the votes were accepted! Now they are crying foul?
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