Trouble brewing

It cannot have come as a surprise to Nicola Sturgeon that US president Donald Trump has not arranged to meet her during his Scottish visit (“Sturgeon snubbed by Trump in plans for UK trip “, The Scotsman, 7 July).

Given the open hostility shown by the SNP to President Trump, this scenario was always on the cards. While Ms Sturgeon will try and brush it off in her usual style and the news may even be applauded by her followers, it is, nonetheless, a blow to Scotland’s prestige, which is entirely the SNP’S fault.

The SNP lives in a little world of its own. It is currently annoying Spain with its support for Catalonia. It seems to regard the English market for Scottish products as far less important than that of the European Union. The US is a massive player on the global stage. Ignore it at your peril.

The SNP is certainly storing up some huge foreign relations problems should it ever achieve its goal of independence. It is looking increasingly like an own goal. (DR) GERALD EDWARDS

Broom Road, Glasgow

I, and probably the whole of Scotland, agreed with Lesley Riddoch’s article (Perspective, 9 July), in which she outlined her thoughts on why Scotland should not welcome Donald Trump.

It is truly horrific that young

children were separated from their parents and locked in cages, where they were forced to sleep on concrete floors, for weeks on end. The only thing that has changed is that they are now going to be with their parents, but in adult prisons.

Anthony Baxter’s 2016 documentary on Trump’s golf course at Balmedie, You’ve Been Trumped Too, films the aggressive bullying by Donald Trump against the neighbours next to his golf course who did not want to sell their homes after his repeated requests.

The end of Donald Trump’s presidency and his business interests in Scotland, cannot come soon enough.

SEAN ASHLEY Garden Road, Aberdeen