Donald Trump set for trade talks with Europe as he arrives in Scotland

US president says chances of reaching a commercialized woody with the EU are ’50-50′ up of his August 1 tariff deadline.

United States President Donald Trump has arrived successful Scotland, wherever helium is acceptable to conscionable with European and British leaders for commercialized negotiations and sojourn his play courses.

Trump landed successful the United Kingdom precocious connected Friday, wherever helium volition clasp talks with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Before departing from the White House, the US president told reporters that helium volition sermon the commercialized woody betwixt Washington and London with Starmer and “maybe adjacent amended it”.

Von der Leyen said earlier connected Friday that she had a “good” telephone with Trump.

“We person agreed to conscionable successful Scotland connected Sunday to sermon transatlantic commercialized relations, and however we tin support them strong,” she said successful a societal media post.

Shortly aft coming into office, Trump imposed tariffs connected imports from crossed the world, and helium invited countries to negociate bilateral deals with the US to debar oregon lessen immoderate further commercialized barriers.

The UK agreed to a commercialized statement with the US successful June that expanded entree to American goods successful the British market.

The woody besides acceptable the tariffs connected the archetypal 100,000 UK vehicles exported to the US annually astatine 10 percent.

But the US commercialized warfare with the European Union has, by contrast, intensified. Earlier this month, Trump announced 30-percent tariffs connected EU imports starting connected August 1.

European leaders person expressed willingness to negociate a woody portion besides threatening to enforce their ain commercialized measures against the US.

Trump said connected Friday that the prospects of securing a commercialized woody with the EU are astatine a “50-50 chance, possibly little than that”.

“It’ll beryllium a woody wherever they person to bargain down their tariffs,” helium said.

Beyond economical negotiations, Trump is expected to sojourn his play courses successful Aberdeen and Turnberry successful Scotland, wherever helium said helium volition big Starmer for dinner.

The US president — whose parent was Scottish — is expected to look protests arsenic helium moves astir Scotland.

A radical dubbed the Stop Trump Coalition has announced plans connected Saturday for protests that it described arsenic a “festival of resistance”, featuring biology and anti-war advocates.

“Donald Trump whitethorn shingle hands with our leaders, but he’s nary person of Scotland,” Alena Ivanova, a campaigner with the group, said successful a statement.

“We, the radical of Scotland, spot the harm helium has done – to ideology and moving radical successful the US, to the planetary efforts to tackle the clime crisis, to the precise principles of justness and humanity.”

The regular paper The National, which advocates for Scottish independence, described Trump’s sojourn successful a front-page header as: “Convicted US felon to get successful Scotland”.

Trump’s sojourn to Scotland comes arsenic helium faces mounting unit astatine location implicit his ties to the precocious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In the UK, Starmer volition conscionable Trump amid growing calls — including from wrong his ain Labour Party — for London to recognise a Palestinian authorities amid the Israeli-imposed starvation situation successful Gaza.

Earlier connected Friday, Trump dismissed an announcement by French President Emmanuel Macron that Paris volition recognise Palestine’s statehood.

“Here’s the bully news: What helium says doesn’t matter,” Trump told reporters. “It’s not going to alteration anything.”