BALMEDIE: Donald Trump officially opened his new golf course in Scotland on Tuesday, ending a fiveday trip in which the US president signed a major trade deal with the EU and gave Russia less than two weeks to end the Ukraine war.

To the sound of bagpipes, secret agents and golfers criss-crossed the sprawling complex on the Aberdeenshire coast, waiting for the president to tee off. We started with a beautiful piece of land, but we made it much more beautiful, and the area has ... really, really welcomed us,` Trump said before cutting the ribbon.

`We`ll play it very quickly, and then I go back to (Washington) DC and we put out fires all over the world,` he added.

`We have a world that`s got some conflict, but we`ve ironed out a lot of it.

We`re gonna have a great and peaceful world.

Trump`s campaign song, the Village People`s `YMCA`, blared out after the ribbon cutting, as fireworks exploded in the background. The president then teed off with son Eric, who led the project.

`This will be a tremendously successful place and a place where people can come and enjoy life, the US leader said, highlighting how his trip has again blurred the linesbetween his presidency and his business interests.

`We wanted this to be the greatest 36 holes anywhere on Earth. And there`s no question that that`s been achieved, said Eric Trump. `This was his Mona Lisa,` he said of his father`s connection with the course.`Sculpting the dunes, sculpting the land, that was always his painting, he added.

The new course features the world`s largest natural bunker, dunes and greens overlooking the sea, with a `focus on environmental sensitivity`, said a press release.-AFP