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Donald Trump’s Scotland Connection
Many Scots are not at all happy about the upcoming visit of Donald Trump. You know him primarily as an Investor of luxury Golf resorts.
“The world has asked me to be here,” said Donald Trump in July last year, when he was asked why he had made the nomination, election campaign, a break to the British open tennis Championships the ladies in Turnberry on Scotland’s West coast visit. At the time, Trump was a political outsider, of the many assumptions that he would very soon disappear from the scene. This week, he wants to come back to Turnberry. There, he has bought a 2014 Golf. But this time he is coming as a likely Republican presidential candidate in the old home of his mother.
“I own this system and I am very proud of them,” Trump said recently about Turnberry. For £ 200 million Trump has brought the site to the front man, on Friday, the complex will be opened in trump’s presence again. Of Turnberry from Trump wants to travel to Aberdeen to the East coast.
Trump: “I am proud of my possession.”
Lush lawn, angry neighbors
Many Scots have, however, rather mixed feelings, if you think of trump’s Scottish investment. Until shortly after the turn of the Millennium, the Tycoon had shown little interest in Scotland. At the time, he decided to be a huge luxury Golf course in Aberdeenshire to build. Today, the Trump logo graces the entrance of the complex is a few miles North of Aberdeen, where Golf Amateurs play on a lush lawn right on the North sea.
But the idyllic image is in contrast to the controversial history of the project. In 2008, the County Council refused to Aberdeenshire to his planning application for a luxury Golf course in the value of one billion euros. The Scottish government overturned the Council’s Decision, but later followed with the help of planning powers, which had previously been used only to block certain types of building applications.
The construction of the extensive grounds of the beautiful landscape of the coast began, finally, under fierce protests of the local population. Residents accused Trump, he tried to move them by intimidation to Leave; he had, for example, pine trees, plants to block the view to the sea, and huge sand hills to their homes pile up.
“I would never have believed that a Trump presidency would be a candidate,” says David Milne, who lives on the edge of trump’s Golf course in Turnberry, and remembers the huge mound of dirt that were piled up during the construction of the complex to be a two-storey house. As a Protest against trump’s visit to Scotland, Milne has raised under a Scottish a Mexican flag that is visible from the Golf course. Trump has said that he wants to force the Mexicans to pay for the construction of a wall on America’s southern border. “Trump is pretty smart, but he is also dangerous,” says Milne. “I can imagine some 12-year-old children better than the President.”
Angry residents, David Milne with Scottish and Mexican flag
“He had no arguments”
Patrick Harvie of the Scottish Green agrees. Harvie sits for Glasgow in the Scottish Parliament and was caught with a Trump to each other, as this is testified in 2012 before a parliamentary Committee. “They requested him to Express his opinion on the relationship between tourism and wind turbines. When he was asked to provide evidence, he pointed to himself and said: ‘I am the evidence,'” recalls Harvie. “I found him overblown, selfish, as I had it in me. But I had expected that he would endeavour at least, to argue in the case of reasonable, but nothing like this. He had no arguments.”
Prior to his appearance in the Scottish Parliament, Trump already had a very public dispute with the Scottish government. Trump and the then Scottish Prime Minister Alex Salmonds of the national party seemed to understand well at the beginning. Both were some times scan. But the relationship worsened after the government decided, in the vicinity of his Golf course in Aberdeen eleven wind turbines. Trump put no shackles and accused Salmond, this is “eager to destroy the Scottish coastline and therefore Scotland itself”.
Trump would leave loved ones and no more Muslims into the country
Trump is scheduled to meet Muslims
In December Salmonds successor Nicola Sturgeon had announced that she was going to swipe Donald Trump from the global business partner network, GlobalScot, after the latter had demanded a “complete blocking of the United States for Muslims”.
Before the planned visit on Friday, thousands of people have signed a Petition in the Trump is asked to visit a Scottish mosque. Because after the massacre, of Orlando, Trump had repeated his claim that Muslims should generally are not permitted to travel in the United States.
“It is no surprise schA tion that the crass reaction Trumps the tragedy in Orlando, even more people are demanding that he meets here in Scotland with Muslims,” says Willie Rennie, the leader of the Scottish liberal Democrats. “His reaction to Orlando once again underlines how important it is that he met here, some of the people he demonized.”