TRANSCRIPT: President Trump Attends the Opening of a New Golf Course in Aberdeen, Scotland, 7.29.25

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President Trump: Well, that is a beautiful sound and we want to thank them. What talent. And you have young ones and you have a little older ones. And, uh, they're gonna be, the younger ones are gonna be doing that for 60 years, just like the little older ones are doing. And I want to thank them very much, great group. Heard 'em last night. I also want to thank, uh, your first minister who's here. Uh, John, would you stand up? John Swinney, who's a terrific guy and loves golf and loves the people of this, uh, of this country and we really appreciate it. You're really a very special guy. Thank you very much for everything, John. My son, Eric, has worked so hard on this and it's been truly a labor of love for him. And we started with a beautiful piece of land, but we made it much more beautiful. And, uh, the area has given us, they've really welcome -- welcomed us. If you remember, at the beginning, it wasn't quite a welcome, but it wasn't bad. But with time, they've liked us more and more. Now, they love us and we love them. They've really put it out and they know how good this whole complex is. It's Trump International, we have the first course, which we call the old course, and the second course, which we call the new course, 'cause that's the best way to describe. Uh, anything else gets too complicated. They don't know which is which, but they know the old and the new, and it's gonna be, uh, something very special. And the big question is, which is going to be better if there's such a thing, because we've had such great ratings on the first. I don't know if you can match 'em on the second, but the second should be every bit as good. The land is of equal quality right on the North Sea, and it's gonna be really, it's, it's gonna be great. I look forward to playing it today. We'll play it very quickly and then I go back to D.C. and we put out fires all over the world. We did one yesterday, as you know, we stopped a war. But we stopped about five wars. So that's, uh, much more important than playing golf. As much as I like it, it's much more important. I want to just thank Sarah Malone for having, uh, been with us right from the beginning. Uh, she was young and not experienced, now she's still young and very experienced. So I just want to thank you. And my -- [Laughs] and my son, Don, for, uh, for being with us all the way. He's always been with us and he's a great guy and he's got some great golfers in the family, Kai. And he's got one right over there, that little one, she may be one of the most talented in the whole family. She's something special, right? So, uh, that's Chloe. She's, you'll be reading about her someday, walking down the 18th hole of some great course, I think, right? She's very talented, actually. So, uh, I just want to thank everybody. This has been, uh, an unbelievable development. The land, they said it couldn't get zoned, it was an impossibility. And Sean Connery said, "Let the bloody bloke build his golf course." Once he said that, everything came into line. John and I were talking about it last night. Everything came into line. I want to thank, by the way, the prime minister was here last night and was really very gracious and loves the place, loves the area. So I just wanna thank him very much for coming. And, uh, we gave him a little preview and it was really very nice and we just signed a very big deal, as you know, with the, uh, European Union, but also with the United Kingdom. Uh, the United Kingdom was a week before, and it's a very big deal and a great deal for the country and it's a great deal for everybody. So I just want to thank him and everybody that works so hard on this. They've been trying to get it done for 12 years, we got it done. So somebody did a good job. So I just, uh, guess we're gonna be hitting a couple of balls and we're gonna play the round. And, Laura, I wanna thank you, with the head of the Republican Party, for during the election, which was the time they counted. And, uh, she was, uh, fantastic. And Ron and Larry, thank you very much. And, uh, everybody, we just had, uh, tremendous, tremendous support from everybody, especially the family. These are very hard to build and you won't see 'em built anymore. You'll probably never see another course built in the dunes, not dunes like this. Through the, uh, groundskeepers who I know so well, from number one, the first thing I said, "Which is better: the old or the new?" And they were unable to give me an answer. They actually meant it. But great job you've done with your core superintendent who's been here for a long time and we just want to thank you. And to all of our friends, to all of our great friends, thank you very much. So I'll be playing quickly and then I'll be heading back and I look forward to that, but I really look forward to playing. So thank you everybody, and thank you to the media. The media's been terrific, believe it or not. I didn't use the -- See, I didn't use the word "fake news" one time. Not one time. Today, they're not fake news, today they're wonderful news. But uh, I just wanna thank you that they've treated us, uh, really well and they respect what we've done, really at a level that you rarely see nowadays. So I really very much appreciate it. And we're gonna go out and we're gonna have a good time. Thank you all of the dignitaries and all of my friends. Uh, it's gonna be a special day, and it's gonna be a special year, and it's gonna be a special decade. And we're gonna make all of our countries strong and great and, uh, really wonderful again, and that's happening and it's happening very fast. And, uh, we love Scotland. You know, my mother was born here and she loved it. She would come back here religiously once a year during the summers with my sister Marianne, and sometimes my sister Elizabeth, but they would come here religiously. And uh, Stornoway, that's serious Scotland, by the way. There's no doubt about that, so the Isle of Lewis. I want to just thank everybody and have a good time today, play well, enjoy yourselves. And many, many years. We'll see each other many, many years. Thank you very much everybody.

Eric Trump: And ladies and gentlemen, before we cut the ribbon, we wanna present something to a very, very special person, a person who's truly become a member of our family. And that's Sarah Malone, she's dumped 16 years of her life into this incredible property, she's built every inch alongside of the entire family. And there's no one more deserving of this than, than her. She's, uh, truly, truly become a friend, family, and a person we love very much. So, I know she's gonna get emotional, I can see the lips. But you deserve every moment of this incredible day. Not only are we doing this ribbon-cutting, not only are we doing a presidential visit, we're also doing the Legends Tour, we're also doing the DP World Tour back-to-back. I think Guy will tell you that's the first time in history that you've ever had two tournaments playing in back-to-back weekends on the same course. So you're a rock star, we love you. We appreciate you very much, and this is for you, Sarah.

Question: [Inaudible] course number two [Inaudible] quite the jump --

Eric Trump: Would you like to do the honors?

Trump: Okay, we're ready. Are we ready? C'mon up. So may God bless everyone, everyone here, and everyone everywhere. Yeah, we have a world that's got some conflict, but we've ironed out a lot of it. Uh, we're gonna have a great and peaceful world, and on a much smaller scale, this will be a tremendously successful place. And a place where people can come and enjoy life. And, uh, it's very special, so I hope everybody in Scotland and well beyond Scotland enjoys it for many, many years to come. Let's go. One, two, three.

Unidentified: [Inaudible]

Trump: [Inaudible] Thank you everybody. Thank you.

Question: What do you make of the Middle East peace plan, Mr. President?

Eric Trump: What?

Question: The Middle East peace plan, what do you make of it? [Laughter]

Trump: It'll get straightened out. It's gonna get straightened out.

Eric Trump: Laura.

Note: ["YMCA" by the Village People is played for about 75 seconds.]

Unidentified: [Inaudible]

Trump: At least they they gave me the honor. [Laughter]

Unidentified: Now, please welcome onto the tee, the 45th and 47th President of the -- United States of America, Donald J. Trump.

Unidentified: Ball. Ball. Yeah! Ball. Ball. Hey!

Trump: You know, that's unbelievable.

Eric Trump: He likes the course, ladies and gentlemen. He likes the course a lot. [Laughter]

Trump: Well, thank you very much everybody. Have a good time. Thank you very much.

Unidentified: Next up, and no pressure, Eric Trump.

Unidentified: Wow, he's --

Unidentified: Hey!

Unidentified: [Inaudible] -- far.

Eric Trump: I like the course too. [Laughter]

Unidentified: [Inaudible] congratulations, sir. [Inaudible]

Paul McGinley: Okay, [Inaudible]. Will I go?

Unidentified: All right, Paul. [Inaudible]

Unidentified: Former Ryder Cup Captain and team member, Paul McGinley.

Unidentified: All right, Paul.

Unidentified: Hey.

Unidentified: Hooray.

Unidentified: Ah, nice.

McGinley: All right, lads.

Unidentified: And U.S. PGA Champion, Rich Beem.

Unidentified: Hey. [Inaudible]

Question: Mr. President, come and tell us about the course?

Question: Mr. President, what will you say next to Benjamin Netanyahu?

Unidentified: C'mon, give us a break.

Trump: We're working together. We're gonna try and get things straightened out, for the world. Thank you very much.

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