President Trump referred to 3 individuals who had been arrested on suspicion of vandalizing his Trump Turnberry golf resort in Scotland with pro-Palestinian messages as “terrorists.”
Mr. Trump stated he had been knowledgeable of the arrests by Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain. “They did critical harm,” the president stated on Monday in a post on his social media channel, “and hopefully can be handled harshly.”
Within the incident, earlier this month, the resort’s clubhouse was defaced with red paint and a part of the course was dug up and painted with the phrase “Gaza just isn’t 4 sale.” The police in Scotland stated they charged a 33-year-old man. They arrested one other man, 75, and a girl, 66, both of whom were released, pending additional inquiries.
Palestine Motion, a pro-Palestinian activist group, posted footage of the harm on social media on March 8. “While Trump makes an attempt to deal with Gaza as his property,” the group stated, “he ought to know his personal property is inside attain.”
Mr. Trump has been in common contact with Mr. Starmer by telephone in current weeks, in response to the prime minister’s aides, and has raised the problem of Trump Turnberry, which he has owned since 2014. The resort, in Ayrshire, on the rugged west coast of Scotland, is certainly one of Mr. Trump’s prized belongings.
“You can not let issues like this assault occur,” Mr. Trump wrote, “and I vastly admire the work of Prime Minister Starmer, and UK Regulation Enforcement.”
In 2018, throughout his first time period, Mr. Trump requested his ambassador to London, Robert Wooden Johnson IV, to contact the British authorities for assist in steering the British Open golf championship to Turnberry, which has not hosted the match since 2009.
The R&A, the golf affiliation that runs the match, stated in 2021, after the assault by Mr. Trump’s supporters on the U.S. Capitol, that it could not carry the Open again to Turnberry while it was associated with Mr. Trump.
