That was when Donald Trump's motorcade swept through Ayrshire and I saw the President's famous armoured car adorned with the flags of the United States and the saltire of Scotland. Conventional diplomacy suggests that it should be the UK's union flag that flutters alongside the stars and stripes.

Locals in Scotland, long annoyed by Trump’s golf courses, expressed their outrage as the president visited for the weekend.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on the cobblestone and tree-lined street in front of the U.S. Consulate about 100 miles away in Edinburgh.