--- title: Trump Promotes His Scottish Golf Course on Twitter description: Donald Trump took to Twitter to promote one of his Scottish golf courses as the world’s “greatest” as well as being a diplomatic asset. canonical: https://time.com/5542376/trump-golf-course-scotland-tweets/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-02T17:35:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T22:55:15.174Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Promotes One of His Scottish Golf Courses on Twitter, Saying It's 'Perhaps the Greatest' og:description: The facility also “furthers U.K. relationship,” Trump tweeted og:url: https://time.com/5542376/trump-golf-course-scotland-tweets/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5827b3d7fdc03878/69894620929fad633abf2cf8/trump-golf-course-scotland-tweets.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5211 og:image:height: 2931 og:image:alt: Donald Trump promotes his golf course in Scotland saying its the world's "greatest" on Twitter og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Promotes One of His Scottish Golf Courses on Twitter, Saying It's 'Perhaps the Greatest' twitter:description: The facility also “furthers U.K. relationship,” Trump tweeted twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5827b3d7fdc03878/69894620929fad633abf2cf8/trump-golf-course-scotland-tweets.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Promotes One of His Scottish Golf Courses on Twitter, Saying It's 'Perhaps the Greatest' > Sponsored content. 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A view of MacLeod House, a sixteen room boutique hotel, at the Trump International golf course on Oct. 6, 2017 in Balmedie, Scotland. Trump took to Twitter to promote the golf course on Mar. 2, 2019 as the world's "greatest" and "furthers U.K. relationship."Renee Graham—AP by [Ros Krasny / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Ros Krasny / Bloomberg Contributor Mar 2, 2019 5:35 PM UTC Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to promote one of his money-losing Scottish golf courses as perhaps the world’s “greatest” as well as being a diplomatic asset. The president retweeted a message from the Trump Organization about the physical attributes of Trump International Scotland, located north of Aberdeen: a “close to ideal” landscape with “no weak holes.” The facility also “furthers U.K. relationship!” Trump said. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1101837499230498816) Many Twitter users immediately seized on the tweet as an example of Trump using the social media site — where he has 59 million followers — to promote his own business. Trump’s golf courses are a regular source of controversy in Scotland. On Thursday, the Trump Organization was ordered to pay the Scottish government’s legal costs following a lengthy court battle over an offshore wind farm, the BBC reported. U.K. filings in August showed that Trump’s two Scottish courses posted a combined loss of 4.6 million pounds ($6.1 million) in 2017\. At the time, the Trump Organization had pumped more than 150 million pounds into the courses without turning a profit. Golf course rankings are subjective and there’s no absolute standard. The website “Top 100 Golf Courses” rates rates Trump’s north-coast layout as Scotland’s 10th best. 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