“That’s him away”.
Its a line from the end of the great film Local Hero, which Andrea Brymer quoted to me standing on the 18th green of the New Course on the Menie Estate.
Marine One, the US President’s helicopter, whisked Trump away from an action packed few days in Scotland.
On previous visits by President Trump I have covered protests and the politics around the trip, but this was the first time I had been up close and seen a bit of how these things work and the sheer scale of it all.
I was on holiday last week so wasn’t involved in reporting the first few days of the most public private visit ever. It was quite a return to work on Monday though, knowing that I would be inside Turnberry at the Ballroom press conference ahead of the bi-lateral meeting between the President and Prime