Donald Trump’s golfing trip to Scotland this weekend has started to look like a few days of welcome relief for the US president. From Downing Street’s perspective, however, it may all look a bit different.
At home, Trump is embroiled in linked controversies that seem to have come out of the blue. Having seen off most of the legal challenges to the orders he issued in his first days back in office, he now faces a quasi-rebellion from his hitherto loyal and largely unquestioning base over a case that has little obvious bearing on high politics at all.
