President Catherine Connolly and President Donald Trump met Saturday in Áras an Uachtaráin. Here President Trump is signing the visitors book.
Trump described his meeting with the Irish president as "very nice." Trump is in Ireland for the weekend and will be attending the Irish Open golf tournament at Doonbeg in County Clare. Trump owns the course.
Before heading for Doonbeg after his engagements in Dublin, Trump said that a united Ireland would be "fantastic." He said this and more during a sit down with Taoiseach Mícheál Martin at Farmleigh House and, according to an Irish Independent report, Trump said that he would "love" to see a united Ireland.
He added that he didn't want "to cause any problems. But I will tell you, I'd love to see it unified. I have friends on both sides. Great people. They're Irish people. How can they be bad, right? I'd love to see it unified. I think it would be a great, a great feather in everybody's cap if that happened. You know what? The way I look at it, it's going to happen eventually. It may as well happen now."
Trump said that he and Mr. Martin had discussed the issue among other topics in their meeting.
"We were talking about it. You got the right man over here to get it moving. But yeah, I think it would be a fantastic thing. Now, the UK will have something to say about it, obviously. But I think it would be a great thing. I mean, how can it be bad?"
Not viewing the visit in such a sense were thousands who demonstrated against the president in Dublin. There was also a protest at Shannon Airport in County Clare where Air Force One, the new one donated by Qatar, landed before Trump continued to Doonbeg on the Marine One helicopter. Photo by Tony Maxwell via Rollingnews.ie.
