Donald Trump is in Scotland this weekend, for what CNN described as a “golf-heavy trip,” which will include both trade negotiations with the European Union and a meeting with British Prime Minister Kier Starmer.
But as he hit the golf course on Saturday, Trump could not escape questions about the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
Sky News reporter Connor Gillies was near Trump on the course, and shouted a series of questions at the president, including “can you escape the Epstein scandal?” Trump did not respond, but loud music could be heard blaring from his cart, including “Memories,” the song from one of Trump’s favorite Broadway musicals, “Cats.”
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Gillies later reported that other songs could be heard coming from Trump’s cart, including Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl.”
Donald Trump waves at @SkyNews camera as I ask if he’s enjoying the Scottish hospitality. He doesn’t engage on whether he using it to escape Epstein crisis.
Music blaring from his buggy.
The soundtrack…
🎵 Uptown Girl
🎵 Bridge over Troubled Water
🎵 Memories by Elaine Paige pic.twitter.com/KwNxTFaK48— Connor Gillies (@ConnorGillies) July 26, 2025
Trump is long established as a big fan of “Cats,” the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical from the 1980s, and especially the song “Memories.” “Cats” debuted on Broadway in 1983, around the time of Trump’s rise in the New York real estate world.
Stephanie Grisham, briefly the White House press secretary in Trump’s first term, wrote in her memoir that “Mr. Trump’s handlers designated an unnamed White House official known as the ‘Music Man’ to play him his favorite show tunes, including ‘Memory’ from “Cats,” to pull him from the brink of rage.” Max Miller, then a White House staffer (and Grisham’s then-boyfriend), and now a member of Congress, was identified in subsequent media reports as the “Music Man.”
More recently, Trump reportedly told the Kennedy Center board about his longtime love of “Cats,” including sharing that he attended the premiere of the Broadway show with “somebody I should not have been there with,” implying that he had attended the show with a woman who was not his then-wife Ivana.
“I walked in, I saw all these bodies, and then I noticed those bodies were gorgeous. They had silk tights on, and they were all ballerinas, and women from Broadway. And men,” Trump reportedly told the board of his first impressions of “Cats.”
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