NEWARK -- President Donald Trump touched down at Newark Liberty International Airport Friday afternoon after attending Bastille Day ceremonies in Paris, with plans to head to his golf course in Bedminster for the U.S. Women's Open.

The president arrived on Air Force One at 2:44 p.m., before leaving the airport in a motorcade for the 30-mile trip to Trump National Golf Club in Somerset County.

Apart from attending France's independence day celebration as the guest of honor 100 years after America's entry into World War I, Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, and he and First Lady Melania Trump also dined with Macron and his wife, Brigitte.

Protesters planned to greet Trump at the golf club, objecting to the decision by the Ladies Professional Golf Association and the U.S. Golf Association to stage the showcase event there in light of past revelations about Trump's attitudes and behavior toward women.

The anti-sexism group UltraViolet has called on the LPGA and USGA to "dump Trump," and issued a statement attacking the real estate developer, reality show host and 45th U.S. president as, "a self-admitted serial sexual predator and unapologetic misogynist."

Trump's return from overseas also comes amid the recent revelations that his son Donald Jr. met during the campaign last year with a Russian lawyer on the promise of receiving damaging information about his father's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. Trump told reporters in Paris that he had been unaware of the meeting, and he defended his son's actions as something "a lot of people would do."

At Trump National, the president and his guests were expected to watch the tournament from an elevated, air-conditioned viewing stand constructed near the clubhouse, overlooking the 16th tee and the 18th green.

Trump National is one of several New Jersey properties that have borne the president's name, including a pair of apartment towers in Jersey City, and several Atlantic City casinos, all defunct: Trump's Castle, which later became Trump Marina; Trump Plaza; and Trump Taj Mahal, which held a liquidation sale last week.

NJ Advance Media staff videographer Bernadette Marciniak contributed to this report.

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