His business is booming in India, but his golf courses have been vandalised in Ireland and Scotland, and he has had business setbacks in Indonesia. Two months after his frenetic return to the White House, Donald Trump's brand has had mixed success worldwide.No stranger to blending business and politics, the United States president got a taste of the hazards recently when the elegant clubhouse of the Trump Turnberry golf resort in Scotland was splashed in blood-red paint, an immaculate green spray-painted with the words: "GAZA IS NOT 4 SALE.
"A pro-Palestinian group claimed the "act of resistance", saying it was in answer to Trump's proposal to take over the Gaza Strip, expel its inhabitants and turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East".Another Trump golf course in Ireland was targeted two weeks ago, when activists planted Palestinian flags on the greens.But management at the property in the village of Doonbeg says the golf course is receiving record numbers of membership applications since its owner's re-election.
A world away, in Bali, weeds have overrun the Nirwana golf resort: the Trump Organisation and a local partner signed a deal in 2015 to develop a six-star destination. The resort closed two years later, costing workers their jobs. The Trump family empire has since then joined up with local partners in a large real estate project near Jakarta.
But that venture, a vast luxury development called Lido City, has also run into problems. In February, the Indonesian governm.
