CAMPAIGNERS have promised that a “festival of resistance” will haunt US President Donald Trump’s visit to Scotland as the Labour government promises a warm welcome for the billionaire bigot.

Mr Trump is expected to arrive at the weekend for the private visit, enjoying stays at his golf resorts in Aberdeen and Turnberry in South Ayrshire as well as meetings with Scottish First Minister John Swinney and British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Ahead of the visit, Scottish Secretary Ian Murray told BBC Radio Scotland that Mr Trump, whose mother hailed from Lewis, that he could expect a “warm welcome,” adding: “We would always have a warm welcome for the president of the United States.

“The office of the president of the United States and the office of the Prime Minister are ones that work very, very closely together and should do because it’s in our national interest to do so.

“We should make sure those relationships are in place because it’s important for our defence, our security, our economy, especially for jobs, and it’s really, really important to the finer details of the US trade deal that’s been done.”

Trade unions, disability rights activists, climate justice campaigners and Palestine solidarity groups have promised to turn up the temperature, pledging a “festival of resistance” at every turn of Mr Trump’s four-day visit.

Events were set to begin last night with an emergency Gaza rally in Aberdeen, ahead of a full programme of events being published to demonstrate feeling towards a US president who has torn up environmental treaties and overseen the humanitarian catastrophe caused by Israel's brutal war on the people of Gaza.

A Stop Trump Scotland statement said: “The people of Scotland don’t want to roll out a welcome mat for Donald Trump, whose government is accelerating the spread of climate breakdown and fascism around the world.

“We stand in solidarity with the Palestinians, who will not be forced out of Gaza so that Trump’s ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ can be built on its mass graves, and with the Ukrainians, who bravely continue their fight for self-determination in spite of American betrayals.

“Scotland is not his playground. Even if Keir Starmer bends the knee to Trump, John Swinney should stand with the people of Scotland and say no to a humiliating photo opportunity with the leader of the international far right.”