Donald Trump has urged Sir Keir Starmer to “get rid of the windmills” in Scotland and focus on extracting more North Sea oil instead.

The US president issued the appeal as he confirmed he is to meet the Prime Minister in Aberdeen later this month – while noting the city was the “oil capital of Europe.”

In an interview with BBC News, Mr Trump said there was “so much oil” remaining in the North Sea and argued that the UK Government should “bring back” energy policies focused on extracting it.

In contrast, he said wind farms were damaging “the beauty of Scotland” and should be torn down.

Mr Trump’s intervention came ahead of his July visit to Scotland, when he is expected to visit his golf resorts in Aberdeenshire and Ayrshire.

He will meet Sir Keir and John Swinney, the Scottish First Minister, during the trip. Protests are expected to take place and up to 5,000 police officers could be deployed on 12-hour shifts.

Mr Trump told BBC News: “We’re going to have a meeting with... a state meeting with the Prime Minister, and that’s gonna be up in Aberdeen, which is the oil capital of Europe, they should bring it back too.

“They have so much oil there. They should get rid of the windmills and bring back the oil. [Because] the windmills are really detrimental to the beauty of Scotland and every other place they go up.”