DONALD TRUMP will be in Scotland next week and is certain to play golf at his Turnberry or Menie course – or perhaps both.

He will arrive in London on Thursday in Air Force One fresh from the Nato summit in Brussels but will spend just one night in London – avoiding, the visit organisers hope, the expected massive protests – sleeping at the US Ambassador's official residence in Regent's Park.

On the Friday morning, Trump and May will visit an as-yet unnamed defence site connected to joint UK-US military training after which he will hold talks with Theresa May at her Chequers country retreat in Buckinghamshire, then meeting the Queen at Windsor Castle before spending two of his four days' visit in Scotland – where he will not meet First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Details of the Scottish visit are likely to be released this week although as 10 Downing Street is describing this an "a private element of the official visit" the detail is likely to be scant. He is unlikely to visit his mother's former home on Lewis. Mary Anne MacLeod emigrated to New York in the 1930s.

More than 5000 police – at a cost of £5 million to the UK Treasury – will be mobilised to ensure that his visit here is not disrupted by mass protests.

However protests are planned for both Glasgow and Edinburgh, although Trump is unlikely to be close to either place. On Friday a Trump Our rally is being held at 5pm in Glasgw's George Square and the following day, July 14, the protest moves at noon to the Scottish parliament, with a Carnival of Resistance thereafter in the Meadows.