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(audience applauding) - Well, thank you. (gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music) Well, that is a beautiful sound, and we wanna thank them. What talent. (audience applauding) And you have young ones, and you have a little older ones, and they're gonna be, the young ones, are gonna be doing that for 60 years, just like the little older ones are doing, and I wanna thank them very much. Great group, heard 'em last night. I also wanna thank your first minister who's here. John, would you stand up? John Swinney, who's a terrific guy and loves golf, and loves the people of this country, and we really appreciate it. You're really a very special guy. Thank you very much for everything, John. My son, Eric, has worked so hard on this, and it's been truly a labor of love for him, and we started with a beautiful piece of land, but we made it much more beautiful, and the area has given us, they've really welcomed us. If you remember, at the beginning, it wasn't quite a welcome, but it wasn't bad. But with time, they've liked us more and more now. They love us, we love them. They've really put it out, and they know how good this whole complex is. It's Trump International. We have the first course, which we call the old course, and the second course, which we call the new course, 'cause that's the best way to describe. Anything else gets too complicated. They don't know which is which, but they know the old and the new, and it's gonna be something very special, and the big question is, which is going to be better if there's such a thing, because we've had such great ratings on the first. I don't know if you can match 'em on the second, but the second should be every bit as good. The land is of equal quality right on the North Sea, and it's gonna be really, it's gonna be great. I look forward to playing it today. We'll play it very quickly, and then I go back to D.C., and we put out fires all over the world. We did one yesterday, as you know. We stopped a war, but we have stopped about five wars, so that's much more important than playing golf. As much as I like it, it's much more important. I want to just thank Sarah Malone for having been with us right from the beginning. She was young and not experienced. Now she's still young and very experienced, so I just want to thank you. And my-- (audience applauds) And my son, Don, for being with us all the way. He's always been with us, and he's a great guy, and he's got some great golfers in the family, Kai, and he's got one right over there, that little one. She may be one of the most talented in the whole family. She's something special, right? So that's Chloe, you'll be reading about her someday, walking down the 18th Hall of some great course, I think, right? She's very talented, actually. So I just want to thank everybody. This has been an unbelievable development. The land, they said, it couldn't get zoned. It was an impossibility, and Sean Connery said, "Let the bloody bloke build his golf course." Once he said that, everything came into line. John and I were talking about it last night. Everything came into line. I want to thank, by the way, the Prime Minister was here last night and was really very gracious and loves the place, loves the area. So I just want to thank him very much for coming. And we gave him a little preview, and it was really very nice. And we just signed a very big deal, as you know, with the European Union, but also with the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom was a week before, and it's a very big deal and a great deal for the country, and it's a great deal for everybody. So I just want to thank him and everybody that worked so hard on us. They've been trying to get it done for 12 years. We got it done, so somebody did a good job. So I just guess we're going to be hitting a couple of balls, and we're going to play the round. And, Laura, I want to thank you, the head of the Republican Party for doing the election, which was the time they counted. And she was fantastic, and Ron and Larry, thank you very much, and everybody. We just had tremendous, tremendous support from everybody, especially the family. These are very hard to build, and you won't see them built anymore. You'll probably never see another course built in the dunes, not dunes like this. To the groundskeepers who I know so well from number one, the first thing I said, "Which is better, the old or the new?" And they were unable to give me an answer. They actually meant it. But great job you've done with your course superintendent who's been here for a long time, and we just want to thank you. And to all of our friends, to all of our great friends, thank you very much. So, I'll be playing quickly, and then I'll be heading back, and I look forward to that, but I really look forward to playing. So, thank you, everybody, and thank you to the media. The media has been terrific, believe it or not. I didn't use the -- see? I didn't use the word "fake news" one time, not one time. Today, they're not fake dunes. Today, they're wonderful news. But I just want to thank you. They've treated us really well, and they respect what we've done, really, at a level that you rarely see nowadays. So, I really very much appreciate it. And we're going to go out. We're going to have a good time. Thank you, all of the dignitaries and all of my friends. It's going to be a special day, and it's going to be a special year, and it's going to be a special decade, and we're going to make all of our countries strong and great and really wonderful again. And that's happening, and it's happening very fast. And we love Scotland. You know, my mother was born here, and she loved it. She would come back here religiously once a year, during the summers, with my sister, Marianne, and sometimes my sister, Elizabeth, but they would come here religiously. And Stornoway, that's Sirius Scotland, by the way. There's no doubt about that. So, the Isle of Lewis. I want to just thank everybody, and have a good time today. Play well, enjoy yourselves, and many, many years. We'll see each other many, many years. Thank you very much, everybody. (audience applauds) - And, ladies and gentlemen, before we cut the ribbon, we want to present something to a very, very special person, a person who's truly become a member of our family. And that's Sarah Malone. She's dumped 16 years of her life into this incredible property. She's built every inch alongside of the entire family. And there's no one more deserving of this than her. She's truly, truly become a friend, family, and a person we love very much. So, I know she's going to get emotional. I can see the lips, but you deserve every moment of this incredible day. Not only are we doing this ribbon cutting, not only are we doing a presidential visit, we're also doing the Legends Tour. We're also doing the DP World Tour back-to-back. I think Guy will tell you that's the first time in history that you've ever had two tournaments playing in back-to-back weekends on the same course. So, you're a rock star. We love you. We appreciate you very much. And this is for you, Sarah. (audience applauds) (silence) (silence) (silence) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) ♪ Young man, there's no need to feel down ♪ ♪ I said young man, pick yourself off the ground ♪ ♪ I said young man, cause you're in a new town ♪ ♪ There's no need to be unhappy ♪ ♪ Young man, there's a place you can go ♪ ♪ I said young man, when you're short on your dough ♪ ♪ You can stay there, and I'm sure you will find ♪ ♪ Many ways to have a good time ♪ ♪ It's fun to stay at the YMCA ♪ ♪ It's fun to stay at the YMCA ♪ ♪ They have everything from your man to enjoy ♪ ♪ You can hang out with all of our boys ♪ ♪ It's fun to stay at the YMCA ♪ ♪ It's fun to stay at the YMCA ♪ ♪ You can get yourself clean ♪ ♪ You can have a good meal ♪ ♪ You can do whatever you feel ♪ ♪ Young man, are you listening to me ♪ ♪ I said young man, what do you wanna be ♪ (audience applauds) - Please welcome onto the tee the 45th and 47th president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. (audience applauds) (audience applauds) - Next up, and no pressure, Eric Trump. - No pressure. - Former Ryder Cup captain and team member, Paul McGinley. (audience applauds) - And USPGA champion, Rich Beam. (audience applauds) (audience applauds)

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