As President Donald Trump shows off his golf courses for Britain’s leader, crisis in Gaza looms – Chicago Tribune
Edinburgh, Scotland – President Donald Trump one day suggested to his Golf field in Scotland “strengthens” the Americano -Uk relationship. Now he’s lucky to prove it.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets on Monday with Trump on a golf property belonging to the president’s family near Turnberry in the southwest of Scotland-then going to Abderdeen, on the northeast coast of the country later, where there is another Trump golf course and a third soon opens.
During his first mandate in 2019, Trump posted his Turnberry property, “very proud of the largest golf course in the world. In addition, the British Kingdom relationship!” Starmer is not a golfer, but switching between the Scottish courses of Trump shows that the disproportionate influence that the president puts on properties bearing his name – and on the ability of golf to shape geopolitics.
However, even if Trump may want to focus on demonstrating his golf properties, Starmer will try to focus the conversation on more urgent global issues. He plans to invite Trump to press Israel to allow more help to Gaza and try to end what Downing St. called “unspeakable suffering and famine” in the territory, while pushing a ceasefire in the War of Israel with Hamas.
Great Britain, with France and Germany, criticized Israel to “retain essential humanitarian assistance” while hunger spread to Gaza. During the weekend, Starmer said that Great Britain would participate in the efforts led by Jordan in Airdrop Aid after Israel temporarily attenuated the restrictions.
But British Affairs Secretary Jonathan Reynolds acknowledged on Monday that only the United States has “leverage” to make a real difference in the conflict.
However, asked questions about the crisis in Gaza on Sunday evening, Trump was largely disdainful – focused more on how he did not obtain a credit personally for previous attempts to provide food aid.
“It’s terrible. You really want someone to say,” Thank you “, said Trump.
The president added: “It makes you feel a little bad when you do this” without what he considered to be an appropriate recognition.
Starmer is under pressure from its Labor Party legislators to follow France by recognizing a Palestinian state, a decision by Israel and the United States. The British leader says the United Kingdom supports the State for the Palestinians, but that it must be “part of a wider plan” for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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According to Monday’s agenda, Starmer’s office is also efforts to promote a possible peace agreement to end the fighting in the Russian war with Ukraine – in particular efforts to force Russian President Vladimir Putin at the negotiating table in the next 50 days.
Trump, in the past, has strongly criticized the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for also failing to express enough public gratitude towards American support for his country, taking a similar approach which he now adopts with regard to Gaza. The president, however, has moved away from this tone and criticized Putin more strongly and Russia in recent weeks.
Trump will be on the site of his new course on Tuesday near Aberdeen for an official ribbon cup. It opens to the public on August 13 and the hours of TEE are already for sale – the course betting that a presidential visit can help stimulate sales.
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The demonstrators planned a demonstration in Balmedie, near the existing golf course of Trump, after demonstrators took to the streets of Scotland on Saturday to denounce the president’s visit while he golf.
Starmer and Trump will probably find more common field on business issues.
While China initially responded to Trump’s pricing threats by retalling with high import taxes on American products, it has since started to negotiate to facilitate trade tensions. Starmer and his country have adopted a much softer approach. He did everything possible to work with Trump, flatter the president several times during a February visit to the White House and associate himself to announce a joint commercial framework on the prices for certain key products in May.
Starmer and Trump then signed a trade agreement at the G7 summit in Canada, which released the US prices aerospace sector and used quotas to reduce them in the car-related industries by 25% to 10% while increasing the amount of American beef that he promised to import.
Discussions with Starmer follow a Trump meeting on Sunday with the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen during his turnberry class. They have announced a commercial framework that will put in 15% of the prices on most of the goods from the two countries, although many major details remain pending.
The president is for months against American trade deficits of yawning around the world and considers prices as a way to try to close them in a hurry. But the United States has led a trade surplus of $ 11.4 billion with Great Britain last year, which means that it exported more to the United Kingdom than it imported. The figures of the census office this year indicate that the surplus could grow.
There are still commercial problems that persist American that require a fine adjustment. The executive of the May’s agreement said that British Steel would enter the United States as a franchise on rights, but that it continues to face a 25%tax.
British affairs secretary Jonathan Reynolds said on Monday that “negotiations were taking place daily” and “there are some problems to push a little further today”, although he has minimized the expectations of a resolution.
The chief of Scotland, on the other hand, said that he would urge Trump to raise the current 10% tariff on Scottish whiskey. Prime Minister John Swinney said that the “unique character” of the mind justified an exemption.
Even if some business details persist and the two leaders are struggling with increasingly difficult choices in Gaza and Ukraine, Starmer’s stay on the right side of Trump seems to work – at least so far.
“The United Kingdom is very well protected. You know why? Because I love them – it’s their ultimate protection,” said Trump during the G7.
The writer Associated Press Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report.
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