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Angry Scots Troll Donald Trump Over Brexit Gaffe


Donald Trump’s inaccurate tweet about how Scotland voted in the EU referendum has sparked a furious backlash during his visit to Britain.
Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters

The Donald got his facts wrong. Again.

By Lee Moran
06/24/2016 07:51 am ET | Updated June 24, 2016

Donald Trump [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/donald-trump/ ] is not getting the warm Scottish welcome he was hoping for.

The presumptive GOP presidential nominee arrived in Scotland on Friday [ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-calls-britain-decision-to-leave-the-eu-a-great-thing-after-touching-down-in-scotland_uk_576cec9ce4b0d25711495633 ] to officially open his new Trump Turnberry [ http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-36606184 ] golf resort. Protesters greeted him with golf balls emblazoned with Swastikas, a symbol of Nazi Germany, at the opening of the course.

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Trump also faced a backlash after tweeting that people in Scotland were “going wild” following the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union.

Many Scots are angry at his tweet because most actually voted to remain inside the EU.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!
4:21 AM - 24 Jun 2016
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Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2016

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All 32 council areas and a total 62 percent of Scots [ http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-36599102 ] backed the UK to remain in the EU, according to the BBC. It was in contrast to the U.K. as a whole, which voted 52 percent to 48 percent for “leave.”

Dozens of Twitter users branded Trump a “moron,” “weapons-grade plum” and “idiot” — including British pop star Lily Allen, TV presenter Sue Perkins and comedian Peter Serafinowicz.

Peter Serafinowicz
@serafinowicz
@realDonaldTrump You are a fucking moron.
5:04 AM - 24 Jun 2016
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You are a fucking moron.

— Peter Serafinowicz (@serafinowicz) June 24, 2016

(with comments)]

lily
@lilyallen
@realDonaldTrump Scotland voted IN you moron
4:30 AM - 24 Jun 2016
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Scotland voted IN you moron

— Lily Allen (@lilyallen) June 24, 2016

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Sue Perkins
@sueperkins
@realdonaldtrump Scotland voted Remain, you weapons-grade plum.
4:58 AM - 24 Jun 2016
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Scotland voted Remain, you weapons-grade plum.

— Sue Perkins 💙 (@sueperkins) June 24, 2016

(with comments)]

Even a Scottish lawmaker replied in a bid to educate the real estate magnate:

Joan McAlpine
@JoanMcAlpine
@realDonaldTrump You are in Scotland. We voted #Remain. #EUref
4:27 AM - 24 Jun 2016 · Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom
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You are in Scotland. We voted #Remain. #EUref

— Joan McAlpine (@JoanMcAlpine) June 24, 2016

(with comments)]

The referendum result has prompted U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron to resign [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/david-cameron-resigns_us_576ca4a9e4b017b379f583e5?3t6q66d8wjpcpojemi ], and it appears as if Scotland may now seek to remain in the European Union itself — but by splitting from the United Kingdom.

“Scotland has delivered a strong, unequivocal vote to remain in the EU, and I welcome that endorsement of our European status,” said Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. She added that a second independence referendum for her nation was now “highly likely.”

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-violence_us_56e1f16fe4b0b25c91815913 ] and is a serial liar [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-911_565b1950e4b08e945feb7326 ], rampant xenophobe [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/9-outrageous-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-latinos_55e483a1e4b0c818f618904b ], racist [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racist-examples_us_56d47177e4b03260bf777e83 ], misogynist [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/18-real-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-women_us_55d356a8e4b07addcb442023 ] and birther [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-birther_56022a33e4b00310edf92f7a ] who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.

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In Scotland, Trump Says British EU Vote Similar To His Campaign


Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters

“People want to take their country back. They want to have independence in a sense. You see it with Europe, all over Europe.”

06/24/2016 10:10 am ET

(Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, thrusting himself into the heart of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, drew parallels on Friday to his own campaign to limit illegal immigration and build a wall at the U.S. border with Mexico.

In Scotland to reopen a golf resort he owns, the wealthy New York businessman told a news conference: “People really see a big parallel. A lot of people are talking about that, and not only the United States but other countries.”

“People want to take their country back. They want to have independence in a sense. You see it with Europe, all over Europe,” said Trump, 70, the presumptive Republican nominee in the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election.

“You’re going to have many other cases where they want to take their borders back,” he said.

“So I think you’re going to have this happen more and more. I really believe that, and I think that it’s happening in the United States. It’s happening by the fact that I’ve done so well in the polls.”

Trump arrived in his signature helicopter at Turnberry near his clubhouse resort, a Scottish flag blowing in the wind. He said the vote was a setback also to U.S. President Barack Obama, a Democrat who had urged Britons to stay in the EU.

“It’s something he shouldn’t have done. It’s not his country. It’s not his part of the world. He shouldn’t have done it. And I actually think that his recommendation perhaps caused it to fail,” Trump said.

Weeks ago Trump said he would be inclined to leave the EU. On Friday he told reporters: “I said this was going to happen and I think that it’s a great thing.”

Trump had exchanged insults with British Prime Minister David Cameron, who supported staying in the EU and said on Friday after the vote he would resign by October. Cameron had called Trump’s anti-immigrant policy ideas divisive and wrong.

“I think David Cameron is a good man. He was wrong on this,” Trump said. He predicted Britain and the United States would remain “great allies.”

More than half a million Britons signed a petition earlier this year to bar Trump from entering Britain, where he has business interests, in response to his call to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States.

British lawmakers decided against a ban as a violation of free speech.

© 2016 Reuters

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