Donald Trump is “doing great” after last month’s assassination attempt last month, his son said.
Eric Trump, 40, arrived at the Trump International golf resort in Aberdeenshire by helicopter on Saturday to view a half-finished new course on the North Sea coast, which will open next year.
The businessman and hotelier said the family’s investment in Scotland demonstrated why his father’s Republican candidacy for the US presidency would benefit Britain as he invited Sir Keir Starmer to visit the golf course.
Speaking about the assassination attempt on his father on 14 July, he said: “It should never have been allowed to happen.
“Somebody let him down – as his son I’m not very happy about it. In the west, you can’t have leaders assassinated.
“When you spend $3bn on an agency, it was a failure that day. Those 48 hours could have been very different. He’s doing great, he’s out campaigning.”
Trump described his father as “the best president his country has seen ever” and compared him to Winston Churchill due to his lack of political correctness.
Trump said: “You could probably draw a lot of parallels with Churchill – funny and un-politically correct, and effective. He says what everyone’s thinking.
“When he was shot with blood running down his face, chanting ‘fight, fight, fight’ – that’s what our country needs. There will never be a better ally for the UK and the west than Donald Trump.”
He also described the Gaza war as “insane” and said he believed his father would meet Palestinian leaders in an effort to end the war – as well as the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
“I’m sure he would meet anybody, he doesn’t want wars,” he said.
He said “the world was laughing at the Biden administration” and pledged his belief that his father would win the presidency, adding: “He wants to see people living the American dream.”
Speaking about Kamala Harris, his father’s rival for the presidency, he said: “What’s she done? She’s been in charge of AI and immigration – she doesn’t even know how to spell AI.”
He vowed the new golf course would become “the best 36 holes in the world” when it opens in 2025.
He said: “What we have done on this side of the pond is incredible.”
