The five-day trip will also raise his second-term golf tab to $52 million in just six months. He spent $152 million during his first term.

Scotland is the birthplace of Trump’s mother and a place where he owns two golf resorts. Yet he hasn’t always had a warm reception there.

U.S. President Donald Trump, dogged by questions about his ties to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, heads to Scotland on Friday for a trip that will mix golf with politics mostly out of the public view.