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He’ll Take the Low Road: Trump’s Tortured History With Scotland
Though he’s now on the outs with the government and people, the mogul spent years trying to win over his mother’s homeland.
David Moir / Reuters
David A. Graham Dec 18, 2015
Donald Trump is a man without a country. The Queens neighborhood where he grew up has changed radically, and is now home to some of the Muslims he disparages. In New York, a left-leaning city and state, his presidential run is met with derision and embarrassment.
And then there’s Scotland. Trump has long sought Alban affection, only to be met—in large part—with a Caledonian cold shoulder. From the Borders to the Hebrides, Trump has sought to emphasize his ties with Scotland; in return, he’s earned loathing in Midlothian and antipathy in Ayrshire. The latest blow came this week, when the U.K. Supreme Court rejected his efforts to block the installation of wind turbines off the coast of Aberdeen, which Trump argued would sully Scotland’s pristine beauty—and the view from his golf development.
It’s the latest in a series of recent slights, including losing his status as an honorary ambassador for Scottish business and being stripped of an honorary degree from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. Trump lashed out at the decision, accusing the Scottish government of a “foolish, small-minded, and parochial mentality.” But he hasn’t always felt that way, and has long courted Scots. The tale begins with Trump’s mother.
Mary Anne MacLeod was born in Tong, a tiny village (2001 population: 527) on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, off Scotland’s West Coast. Her parents spoke Gaelic; the remote town offered a hardscrabble life. In 1930, she left for New York, where she met and married Fred Trump, a successful real-estate developer. In 2008, Donald Trump visited Lewis for the first time in decades, stopping by the cottage where his mother was born (for 97 seconds, according to The Guardian’s count).
“I feel very comfortable here,” he said.
.. more with links .. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/12/donald-trump-scotland-golf/421065/
i was wondering if the Robert Gordon University regretted their decision to give Trump his honorary degree .. they obviously did ..
See also:
California Dreamin’ with Donald Trump and Alex Jones
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123285105
And how stupid are you when you support the one
who has discriminated against blacks in offering rental housing
who has has abused eminent domain to kick elderly people out of their homes
who cheated university students
who .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=125225992
The Trump Virus: How to Constrain Its Spread
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124117361
Though he’s now on the outs with the government and people, the mogul spent years trying to win over his mother’s homeland.
David Moir / Reuters
David A. Graham Dec 18, 2015
Donald Trump is a man without a country. The Queens neighborhood where he grew up has changed radically, and is now home to some of the Muslims he disparages. In New York, a left-leaning city and state, his presidential run is met with derision and embarrassment.
And then there’s Scotland. Trump has long sought Alban affection, only to be met—in large part—with a Caledonian cold shoulder. From the Borders to the Hebrides, Trump has sought to emphasize his ties with Scotland; in return, he’s earned loathing in Midlothian and antipathy in Ayrshire. The latest blow came this week, when the U.K. Supreme Court rejected his efforts to block the installation of wind turbines off the coast of Aberdeen, which Trump argued would sully Scotland’s pristine beauty—and the view from his golf development.
It’s the latest in a series of recent slights, including losing his status as an honorary ambassador for Scottish business and being stripped of an honorary degree from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. Trump lashed out at the decision, accusing the Scottish government of a “foolish, small-minded, and parochial mentality.” But he hasn’t always felt that way, and has long courted Scots. The tale begins with Trump’s mother.
Mary Anne MacLeod was born in Tong, a tiny village (2001 population: 527) on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, off Scotland’s West Coast. Her parents spoke Gaelic; the remote town offered a hardscrabble life. In 1930, she left for New York, where she met and married Fred Trump, a successful real-estate developer. In 2008, Donald Trump visited Lewis for the first time in decades, stopping by the cottage where his mother was born (for 97 seconds, according to The Guardian’s count).
“I feel very comfortable here,” he said.
.. more with links .. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/12/donald-trump-scotland-golf/421065/
i was wondering if the Robert Gordon University regretted their decision to give Trump his honorary degree .. they obviously did ..
See also:
California Dreamin’ with Donald Trump and Alex Jones
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123285105
And how stupid are you when you support the one
who has discriminated against blacks in offering rental housing
who has has abused eminent domain to kick elderly people out of their homes
who cheated university students
who .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=125225992
The Trump Virus: How to Constrain Its Spread
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124117361
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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