Published: 6:07pm, 22 Mar 2025Updated: 6:08pm, 22 Mar 2025
His business is booming in India, but his golf courses have been vandalised in Ireland and Scotland, and he has had business setbacks in Indonesia: two months after his frenetic return to the White House, Donald Trump’s brand has had mixed success worldwide.
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No stranger to blending business and politics, the US president got a taste of the hazards recently when the elegant clubhouse of the Trump Turnberry golf resort in Scotland was splashed in blood-red paint, an immaculate green spray-painted with the words: “GAZA IS NOT 4 SALE.”
A pro-Palestinian group claimed the “act of resistance,” saying it was in answer to Trump’s proposal to take over the Gaza Strip, expel its inhabitants and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
Another Trump golf course in Ireland was targeted last week, when activists planted Palestinian flags on the greens.
But management at the property in the village of Doonbeg says the golf course is receiving record numbers of membership applications since its owner’s re-election.
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A world away, on the tropical island of Bali, weeds have overrun the Nirwana golf resort, which the Trump Organization and a local partner signed a deal in 2015 to develop a six-star destination.