DONALD Trump’s Scottish relatives are planning to visit him in the White House.
Cousin Calum Murray watched the inauguration ceremony on television with wife Christina from their home on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.
Mr Trump is the son of Mary Anne MacLeod, who left Tong on Lewis for America as a teenager.
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While taking the oath, the New York-born business magnate held a Bible given to him by his late mother in 1955.
Mr Murray, who lives at Tong near Stornoway, said: “My wife and I watched it at home. I think it was a very impressive speech.
“We’ve been happy here today just watching it and enjoying everything about the build-up to it. We are very proud of him.”
Mr Murray said that the last time he saw President Trump was in 2008 when he came to visit his cousins in Lewis at the house where his mother grew up.
He said that he and his wife plan to visit him in America to congratulate him.
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He added: “I cannot imagine him coming here for a while but I can see us going to America in the near future. We are family after all.
“We were in New York a few years ago and met him. We went out for dinner and went to his office and he entertained us very well.”
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Mr Murray said that the family in Lewis have kept in touch with Trump’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, who is a US federal judge.
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