– ‘Go it alone’ –
Trump is set to descend into Turnberry by helicopter as results trickle in that should indicate whether Britain has voted to leave the 28-member EU, in a referendum that will shape the continent’s political future.
The campaign has been divisive in Britain, with polls indicating the result could come down to the wire.
Trump told Fox News television ahead of his visit that, though he had not considered the matter deeply, he felt Britain should “go it alone” and vote to leave.
He is set to hold a question-and-answer session along with members of his family before cutting a ceremonial ribbon to open the resort.
On Saturday, he is expected to travel to the Trump International Golf Links, his course in the eastern coastal village of Balmedie, a resort that has been controversial with locals.
Some irate neighbours living next to the course have raised Mexican flags in symbolic opposition to Trump.
The trip echoes a visit to Germany by Barack Obama in 2008, when the US president was the presumptive Democratic nominee, but the approaches of the two towards Europe are starkly different.
Obama addressed a crowd of tens of thousands about his hopes of closer links to a unified Europe.
Trump has criticised the continent’s leaders as “weak”, and accused them of inadequate measures to combat terrorism after attacks in Brussels this year.
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