Donald Trump's Golf Course Gone Awry. Make Scotland Great Again?

[CPUd]

Nearly a decade ago Donald Trump used his brand of bravado and promises to woo an entire country. The country was Scotland, and the promise was to build what he called the world's greatest golf resort. Ten years later, Trump is widely vilified in Scotland and his former loyalists have a warning for America.

[FindLiberty]

lol - I'm looking forward to president Trump's 2nd term as POTUS already...

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Make Scotland Great Again?

'America First'

[CPUd]

'I feel Scottish,' says Donald Trump on flying visit to mother's cottage
Donald Trump pays a flying visit to his mother's birthplace in Tong, on the island of Lewis, Scotland

Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent

Monday 9 June 2008 11.29 EDT
Last modified on Thursday 7 January 2016 14.20 EST


Donald Trump may have the world's most famous comb-over, but it wasn't built for the stiff Hebridean wind that bowled down the runway at Stornoway airport today.

As the US tycoon stepped off his personalised Boeing 727 and onto the tarmac on the isle of Lewis, a playful gust undid his artfully contrived hairdo, blowing long wisps of his trademark ducktail skywards.

It briefly hung in the air like an impromptu halo, and was the only misstep in a minutely choreographed homecoming for the world's most famous property developer. His mother's modest birthplace - a pebble-dashed croft house in the straggling township of Tong - sits just across the bay.

Trump was travelling from an Elton John concert in Boston to the oil-rich city of Aberdeen, where he will give evidence tomorrow at a public inquiry into his plans to spend £1bn on creating the "greatest golf course anywhere in the world". This was a day when a rich slice of New York bling landed in the Western Isles.

From the 727 - the block capitals "TRUMP" gleaming in gold on its black fuselage - assistants unloaded several boxes of his own autographed homilies to wealth-creation as gifts for the first and second cousins, who had assembled for a brief audience in the airport's nearby air traffic control building.

Cases stamped "Trump: How to get rich" and "Never give up" were carefully loaded into the boot of the island's only Porsche Cayenne 4x4 - a gleaming black vehicle requisitioned for the day from a local millionaire by the Trump Organisation.

Ever since he first unveiled his proposals in 2006 to create his exclusive golf resort, complete with an eight-storey five-star hotel, 950 timeshare apartments and a Trump Boulevard at the Menie estate, north of Aberdeen, Trump has boasted repeatedly of his Scottish roots.

His mother Mary Anne - who left Tong in 1930 aged 18 for a holiday in New York, met a local builder named Trump and stayed - was his inspiration, he said today. She was a "wonderful" and "beautiful" woman, he said. "I think this land is special, I think Scotland is special, and I wanted to do something special for my mother," he told a press conference in Stornoway.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/200...trump.scotland

[juleswin]

I know some people would just accuse me of favoring civility, respect, being courteous and maybe politically correctness but this is this the sort of problem you get from being an abrasive loudmouth, bully, disrespectful person. You rub people in such a wrong way that they would reject $5 m for a rundown property just to piss you off.

Also I think Donald is this way because nobody said no to him as child. This is no way to gain allies.

[Danke]

[angelatc]

I don't have speakers, but reading it....I seem to understand that he pissed off the treehuggers by buying land, then building on it. When they put a windfarm on the ocean next to the course he sued to try to stop it. When that failed, he stopped further development because the planned luxury hotel and homes would not be a good investment with the now-obstructed view. With his typical finesse,

...r Mr Trump likened wind farms to the Lockerbie bombing.
He said the huge turbines were "like Pan Am 103" — the jet that was blown up over Dumfriesshire in 1988, killing 270 people.
The billionaire said: "Wind farms are a disaster for Scotland like Pan Am 103, an abomination, only sustained with government subsidy."

In 2015, he announced plans for a second golf course were proceeding, along with a banquet hall, and is exploring the possibility of resuming the original planned development because it appears that the wind farm will not actually get built.

In the meantime, the PGA is shying away from hosting a tournament there to avoid upsetting the socialists, despite the fact that the golfers all say it is indeed one of the top 3 courses in the world.

When asshats collide...

[juleswin]

I don't have speakers, but reading it....I seem to understand that he pissed off the treehuggers by buying land, then building on it. When they put a windfarm on the ocean next to the course he sued to try to stop it. When that failed, he stopped further development because the planned luxury hotel and homes would not be a good investment with the now-obstructed view.

In 2015, he announced plans for a second golf course, a banquet hall, and is exploring the possibility of resuming the original planned development because it appears that the wind farm will not actually get built.

In the meantime, the PGA is shying away from hosting a tournament there to avoid upsetting the socialists, despite the fact that the golfers all say it is indeed one of the top 3 courses in the world.

When asshats collide...

That is certainly one way of looking at it, another way is that his arrogant, condescending ass came into town trying to bully locals into giving up their ancestoral lands for his golf course. Locals didn't like it and decided to make his life a living hell by supporting the building of ugly giant wind farms. Personally, I can't stand those ugly, giant, bird killing machine but I will most likely vote for them before supporting any Trump investment. That is the kind of guy that he is.

[angelatc]

That is certainly one way of looking at it, another way is that his arrogant, condescending ass came into town trying to bully locals into giving up their ancestoral lands for his golf course. Locals didn't like it and decided to make his life a living hell by supporting the building of ugly giant wind farms. Personally, I can't stand those ugly, giant, bird killing machine but I will most likely vote for them before supporting any Trump investment. That is the kind of guy that he is.

LIke I said, when asshats collide. And we certainly know Trump has a history of trying to bully people off land. But seriously, the film maker has a club up his butt over golf courses, calling them an environmental nuisance while ignoring the negative impacts of wind farms?

Mr Forbes, the farmer that Trump tried to buy out, sounds like one of us, and I mean that in a property-rights kind of way:

Be that as it may, many New Yorkers will recognize the inequality inherent in a struggle between a powerful developer and local residents who refuse to sell him their property.

One of them is Michael Forbes, a farmer and fisherman whose intransigence causes him to be mercilessly demeaned in public by Mr. Trump. “His property is slumlike,” the developer says. “It’s disgusting. He’s got stuff thrown all over the place. He lives like a pig.”

To which, Mr. Forbes says simply: “It’s my home. I’ve stayed here for 43 years now, and he won’t put me out of it.”

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...scotland/?_r=0