ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners urged US President Donald Trump to stick to playing golf today, calling on policy-makers to “tune him out when it comes to how we power our country” as he landed in Scotland.

Mr Trump is taking a five-day private trip to his golf courses in Aberdeen and Ayrshire’s Turnberry.

He bought the land to build his controversial Aberdeen course back in 2009, infuriating locals who opposed the development on a recognised Site of Special Scientific Interest, before clashing with the Scottish government as he attempted to block offshore wind turbines visible from the course, branding them “ugly.”

Mr Trump has since become a vocal opponent of the technology, insisting governments “get rid of the windmills and bring back the oil.”

Urging First Minister John Swinney and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to resist such calls when they meet him next week, environmental campaign group Uplift’s Tess Khan said: “Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on offshore wind reveal how wildly out of step he is with the people of Scotland, the UK — and most of the world. 

“Why on earth would Scotland forgo some of the best wind resources on the planet and abandon an industry that is vital to replacing declining oil and gas jobs?

“New drilling won’t cut bills and, after 50 years of extraction, the basin is fast running out of gas — that’s geology not a political choice.

“Trump is cheerleader-in-chief for an oil and gas industry that has made obscene profits while millions of people here have struggled with unaffordable energy bills.

“Let him play his golf, but let’s tune him out when it comes to how we power our country.”