LONDON — President Trump has not mentioned the place he plans to go after leaving the White Home on Jan. 20. However Scotland’s first minister made
LONDON — President Trump has not mentioned the place he plans to go after leaving the White Home on Jan. 20. However Scotland’s first minister made clear on Tuesday that he’s not welcome there.
The official, Nicola Sturgeon, mentioned that beneath newly imposed coronavirus restrictions, which prohibit all however important journey, a go to by the president to one among his Scottish golf resorts, Trump Turnberry, wouldn’t be acceptable.
Rumors that Mr. Trump would head for Scotland flared after a Scottish paper reported that an American army model of a Boeing 757 — typically utilized by Mr. Trump — was scheduled to land at a close-by airport on Jan. 19, the day earlier than Joseph R. Biden Jr. is to be sworn in as president.
“We’re not permitting individuals to come back into Scotland,” Ms. Sturgeon advised reporters in Edinburgh, “and that might apply to him simply because it applies to anyone else — and coming in to play golf is just not what I might think about to be a necessary goal.”
A plain-spoken politician, Ms. Sturgeon mentioned that she didn’t know what Mr. Trump’s journey plans have been, however that she hoped his speedy plan was to exit the White Home. On Monday, she imposed a lockdown on Scotland, which, like England, is battling a surge in coronavirus circumstances due to a quickly spreading new variant.
Below the brand new guidelines, individuals are required to remain at residence and to work from there when potential. Locations of worship have been closed, and colleges will function by distant studying. Scotland has incessantly moved sooner and additional than England to impose restrictions through the pandemic.
The White Home initially declined to touch upon the report, first revealed in The Sunday Submit, however later denied it.
“This isn’t correct,” the press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, mentioned on Tuesday. “President Trump has no plans to journey to Scotland.”
Two White Home officers mentioned that whereas there was nearly no concrete dialogue of what Mr. Trump will do on Jan. 20 as a result of he’s so centered on attempting to overturn the election outcomes, they don’t imagine he’s contemplating journey to Scotland.