EVEN Donald Trump would have to admit that he wasn’t the most interesting thing happening in Scotland yesterday.

The plan was to launch Trump Turnberry, the golf course he bought over in 2014, at 11am, but this would have meant clashing with the post-Brexit addresses from Boris Johnson and then Nicola Sturgeon. The presumptive Republican candidate had already pushed back his grand entrance to the resort after it was booked to happen at the same time as David Cameron’s resignation.

His Trump-o-copter held back ever so slightly before it spewed out the Donald, wearing a white "Make America Great Again" baseball cap, alongside his sons Eric and Don and daughter Ivanka.

Staff at the golf course, wearing red Made Turnberry Great Again hats, lined the grand entrance into the hotel, cheering as their proprietor posed for pictures and tossed quotes to the American and Scottish journalists who had, without quite realising it, been penned in on the front lawn outside the front door.

"What about Brexit?" one caged hack asked. “It’s a great thing," replied Trump. "I think it’s going to be great. I think it’s a fantastic thing.”

That, however, was just a warm up. “I love you!” he shouted to his employees as he posed with his family and went indoors.

The action then moved over to the ninth hole on the Ailsa course.

It’s here that you realise quite how spectacular Turnberry is. As you tee off you have the Lighthouse right in front of you. The two luxury suites here start off at £3,500 a night. And that’s in low season.

Behind you is Ailsa Craig and to your left you can just about see Arran. The course is really quite stunning and has been just about universally adored by the golfing press who have had a chance to play. It’s the sort of course that would inspire even the staunchest hater of the game to pick up a set of clubs.

And that’s the shame, because the course won’t be on the rotation for the Open, the biggest competition in British golf, nominally until the middle of the next decade, but ultimately until Trump is either no longer involved or is less politically toxic.

His views on Mexicans and Muslims, in particular, have made it difficult for golf’s governing body, the R&A to justify allowing Trump to host their crown jewel.

It was those very views that led to perennial prankster-protester Simon Brodkin, aka Lee Nelson, to make an appearance yesterday. You may be familiar with Brodkin’s earlier work including throwing bills of money up at Sepp Blatter’s press conference and invading the stage during Kanye’s set at Glastonbury.

Before Trump arrived, one of the Secret Service men pointed him out to local police, who talked to him but ultimately did nothing.

When Trump arrived, Brodkin stood up, “I’ve got the new balls, Mr Trump,” he said, holding up a box of golf balls painted red and emblazoned with a swastika, which he then handed out to journalists and spilled over the green.

There was a slight pause, with security, Trump and everyone else looking just a little unsure about whether or not this was supposed to happen. Maybe, they thought, someone had actually ordered Nazi-themed golf balls. “Get him out,” Trump said, and security duly did. For the first 10 minutes of the press conference he stood there, surrounded by the Third Reich themed balls.

The billionaire didn’t address the protester, instead just going straight into his speech about the golf club. It was clearly not what some of the American press who had followed Trump over from the States were expecting.

There was little talk of foreign policy, rather more talk of holes, hotels, grass and drainage.

CNN, who were broadcasting the speech live, broke away after five minutes. “We’re going to break into Donald Trump’s statement right now,” the anchor said. “Which is not something we often do. But it’s very remarkable at this point because of what he hasn’t mentioned yet. He’s been up at the podium for five minutes and he hasn’t mentioned Brexit, is only talking about his golf course and his other business ventures.”

And he didn’t mention it for a good 20 minutes. It was only when he opened the floor to questions from journalists that it started being discussed. “My opinion is that what happened should have happened, and I think they’ll be stronger for it,” he said, adding that in years to come Britain might see Brexit as a “blessing”.

“People want to take their country back, they want to have their independence in a sense. You see it all over Europe. You’re going to have more than just what happened last night, you’re going to have many other cases where they want their border back, they want to take their monetary back.”

Brexit was the will of the people, Trump said, adding: “You just have to embrace it. If the pound goes down more people are coming to Turnberry, frankly”. To boos from some of the older members of the Trump Turnberry club, he said Scottish independence would “be up to the Scottish people”.

Asked if he was upset that senior politicians had turned down his invitation, he said, “they’re all here”. They weren’t. "What about Nicola Sturgeon?", someone asked, “I don’t know” he replied.

And then he and family cut a ribbon and that was it. The course was open and Trump had fulfilled his duties.

He headed back to the club house and spent the night before heading to Aberdeen this morning. This afternoon he flies back to the States, and an increasingly frosty reception from Republican luminaries who are bemused that their candidate has bunked off to visit his golf club.

The next time he visits Scotland, he could very well be the 45th President of the United States.