Donald Trump‘s new golf course in Scotland was plunged into lockdown following a security scare. It came after reports of a suspicious package at the President’s resort in Aberdeenshire, but police later said they were checking a vehicle.
A cordon was set up and with police vans blocking road past Trump International Golf Links just after 3pm, as per The Sun. Local residents in houses nearby the course were evacuated, Herald Scotland reported.
Staff, journalists, and members of the public were reportedly evacuated from the entrance.
The President is believed to have remained in MacLeod House on the estate while the checks were carried out.
Photos showed a bomb squad in attendance, The Sun reported, though police later clarified that no criminality was found.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Shortly after 3pm, a security cordon was put in place at an entrance to the Menie Estate, Aberdeenshire, as officers carried out precautionary checks on a vehicle.
“This search has been completed, there was no criminality and the cordon has been removed.”
The apparent false alarm came on the final day of the US president’s four-day private visit to Scotland.
During the brief visit, the Republican firebrand found time for various engagements, including a meanderingpress conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday with US president touching on various subjects from his “great love of Scotland” to how bad a job he thought Sir Sadiq Khan was doing as Mayor of London.
However, Trump added that he would “certainly” visit London, something a mayoral spokesperson said Sir Sadiq was “delighted” about.
“He’d see how our diversity makes us stronger not weaker; richer, not poorer,” the spokesperson added.
“Perhaps these are the reasons why a record number of Americans have applied for British citizenship under his presidency.”
Trump, who has Scottish heritage on his mother’s side, played two rounds of golf on Saturday and Sunday at his luxury Turnberry resort in South Ayrshire.
He also met Europan Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to announce a surprise US-EU trade deal, and Scottish First Minister John Swinney, with the pair discussing whiskey tariffs and the Gaza crisis.
The American leader’s visit comes months before his second formal state visit to Britain when he will be hosted by the King in September.