Presumptive US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will visit Britain a day after it holds a landmark referendum on its EU membership, saying he was coming to open a newly-renovated Scottish golf course.
Trump said in a statement he would visit on June 24, a day after the crucial vote which has sharply divided Britain’s ruling Conservative party, with the billionaire tycoon previously saying he believed Britain should leave. But a spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron’s Downing Street office said there were “no plans” for the two men to meet during Trump’s visit to Britain.
Trump said he would be visiting the Turnberry golf course in Scotland which would be reopening after a £200-million ($289 million) renovation on June 24. His visit to the resort and Ailsa golf course, which has hosted The Open Championship four times, will come as Britain learns whether it will stay in or leave the European Union following the June 23 referendum. Trump has said his personal “feeling” is that Britons should vote to leave, telling Fox News last month: “I would say that they’re better off without it, but I want them to make their own decision.” Last week Cameron, who is pushing for Britain to stay in the bloc, said US presidential candidates “often come through London” but added: “We have no firm dates in the diary.”
Separately, media reports said Trump appears to be finding some friends in North Korea.
The billionaire has been getting good press this week in the North’s carefully controlled media, first in an opinion piece that praised him as “wise” and full of foresight and then Wednesday in the official mouthpiece of the ruling Worker’s Party itself.
Both articles noted how his suggestions he would be willing to meet leader Kim Jong Un and wants to rethink and possibly withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea have created a “Trump Shock” in Seoul.

Source : Arab News