Donald Trump will meet Irish President Catherine Connolly during a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland, touching down in Dublin on Saturday 12 September. The long-planned visit, which the BBC reported will see Trump fly into the capital on Air Force One, will be the first by a US president since April 2023.
What is on the itinerary? Trump will meet Connolly and hold a bilateral meeting with the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, before travelling to his golf course in Doonbeg, County Clare, the BBC reported. He is expected to watch matches in the Irish Open golf tournament, and some sources expect him to present the winner with a trophy on Sunday evening. An earlier planned sod turning for the new US embassy in the Irish capital is now unlikely to go ahead. Irish security forces will tightly monitor the high-security operation.
What has Connolly said about the US president? Connolly, who has been critical of the US over its stance on Gaza, has said she would "meet and greet" the US president if he visited Ireland, the BBC reported. During her presidential campaign last year she called Trump a "bully". "Have I a trust problem with America? I think every person in the country has a trust problem with America," she said. In the same remarks she called him "volatile, unpredictable, acting like a bully, bringing in tariffs when it suits him", and said: "We keep talking about the consequences of tariffs but we don't talk about the consequences of genocide."
What has the US president said about Connolly? Trump referred to the Irish president as "he" during a bilateral meeting with Martin in the Oval Office last March for St Patrick's Day celebrations. Asked what he made of Connolly's remarks criticising violations of international law in the Middle East, Trump said: "Look, he's lucky I exist, that's all I can say."
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