Donald Trump officially opened his new golf course in Scotland on Tuesday, ending a five-day trip in which the US president signed a major trade deal with the EU and gave Russia less than two weeks to end the Ukraine war. To the sound of bagpipes, secret agents and golfers criss-crossed the sprawling complex on the Aberdeenshire coast, waiting for the president to tee off.

“We started with a beautiful piece of land, but we made it much more beautiful, and the area has ... really, really welcomed us,” Trump said before cutting the ribbon. “We’ll play it very quickly, and then I go back to (Washington) DC and we put out fires all over the world,” he added.

“We have a world that’s got some conflict, but we’ve ironed out a lot of it. We’re gonna have a great and peaceful world.” The new course features the world’s largest natural bunker, dunes and greens overlooking the sea, with “focus on environmental sensitivity”.