Keep out warning to Trump
SNP warn President he’s not welcome in Scotland as US officials reveal plans for embassy trip down south next year
SNP politicians urge the US president not to head north after London visit
BUFFOON president Donald Trump was told by the SNP last night: “You’re not welcome in Scotland.”
The warning came as it emerged he was scheduling a visit to London next year to open the new US embassy.
A trip north to see his two golf courses while he’s in Britain would seem likely.
But Stewart McDonald MP, the SNP’s defence spokesman at Westminster, said: “He should not be welcomed to the UK in the new year and if he comes to London, he certainly wouldn’t be welcomed in Scotland.
“Trump is taking us backwards. Only 17 years ago LGBT people were permitted to serve in our armed forces, a hugely positive change that had to be fought and won in court.
“Trump’s announcement that transgender people were not welcome in the US army is not only discriminatory, but it will have huge consequences on people already serving.
“On this, and many more issues, Trump has proved to be someone the UK should not count as an ally.”
US ambassador Woody Johnson said yesterday that Trump would make a “working visit” to the UK early next year.
He told BBC’s Today programme: “I think he will come. It hasn’t been officially announced but I hope he does.”
A formal state visit, which would include a meeting with the Queen, is not the cards but a working visit would still be controversial.
He would not meet other royals in a stripped-back visit to open the embassy in London.
Any visit by the US leader would probably be met with protests that would dwarf the 1968 Grosvenor Square clashes when students and police battled outside the US embassy.
Trump previously told Prime Minister Theresa May that he did not want to come on a state visit if there were large-scale protests.
An online petition titled “Prevent Donald Trump from making a state visit to the United Kingdom” was signed by 1.86million people.
The Daily Record led calls for a high-level visit to be abandoned after Trump retweeted three anti-Muslim videos last month.
Labour MP Stella Creasy called for the president’s trip to be cancelled and said she would protest against his visit if it goes ahead by wearing “shocking pink” in solidarity with women’s marches in the US.
Lib Dem deputy leader Jo Swinson said any visit would be the fault of Theresa May.
Swinson said: “One of the prime minister’s biggest political mistakes was to offer to roll out the red carpet for a man who wears his racism and misogyny like a badge of pride.
“May should stand up to him and withdraw her invitation.”
London mayor Sadiq Khan, who clashed with the US President on social media in the wake of the London terror attacks earlier this year, said the former host of the US Apprentice should not be feted on his arrival.
He said: “State visits are different from a normal visit and at a time when the president of the USA has policies that many in our country disagree with, I am not sure it is appropriate for our government to roll out the red carpet.”
The Foreign Office said: “Our position on the state visit has not changed – an offer has been extended and President Trump has accepted.
“Exact dates for President Trump to visit have not yet been arranged.”