In her latest column for GOLF.com, Gulbis says that she knows Trump well. There has been no formal contact’.
Advertisement
A spokesman for Cameron said there were no firm plans for a meeting, although it was a long-standing practice for a Prime Minister to meet presidential nominees if they visited Britain. The golf course and most rooms in the hotel have now reopened after a £200 million refurbishment.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at the property on June 24.
Trump has seen off competition in the Republican race but has yet to be formally crowned the official candidate.
He has repeatedly suggested he would back Brexit were he to have a vote on June 23 – and took a sharply different position to Barack Obama on the referendum when he insisted Britain after Brexit would not be “at the back of the queue” for a trade deal with the US.
And he told ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” earlier this month that if he were president, an exit from the European Union would not hurt the U.K.in terms of trade relations with the U.S. He said: “I own it and I am very proud of it”.
MPs in January debated the possibility of barring Trump from entering Britain after more than 500,000 people signed a public petition demanding a ban.
The property developer, whose mother Mary MacLeod was born in Stornoway, Lewis, has always maintained Scotland was his first choice for a golf resort due to his family ties and the recognition of the country as the home of golf.
With Trump’s upcoming visit, there are renewed discussions of the ban in Scottish and British media.
When he last visited the resort in July previous year, he said the “special relationship” between the United Kingdom and the USA would improve if he became president.
A spokeswoman for the Trump Organisation said the date of the opening had been planned long in advance and that it was just a coincidence it came the day after the European Union vote.
In remarks to Parliament following that announcement, Cameron called the proposal “divisive, stupid and wrong”.
“The best piece of advice he has ever given me was to fight for equal pay”, Gulbis said.
Advertisement
A spokeswoman for Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment, although Trump reacted to Clinton’s criticism last week, saying: “What am I going to do?”
