Posted on 04/18/2016 5:03:31 PM PDT by John W
Almost a decade ago, Donald Trump promised to build the world’s greatest golf course, in Aberdeen, Scotland. The course, Trump International Golf Links, was opened in 2012, no thanks to some windmills and a rebellious farmer, but a Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel report that will air Tuesday night on HBO shows just how much Scotland came to despise Trump over the course of the ordeal.
Basically, Trump, in all his bluster, promised massive job creation and beautiful development and expansive investment and (from the Scottish perspective, at least) fell short on all fronts, making far more enemies than friends along the way.
The Real Sports clip features some brutal quotes from Al Salmond, the former First Minister of Scotland, including this exchange with reporter Bernie Goldberg:
What’s his image in Scotland today?
Oh, dreadful. Sub-zero. Donald couldn’t get elected the dog-catcher.
That dog-catcher line is particularly funny since that is in fact one of Donald’s go-to insults.
Salmond also says Trump “didn’t deliver or come anywhere near delivering on the promises he made” and that “Just about the last person I would want to see in the White House is Donald Trump.”
Goldberg sums up Trump’s interaction with the Scots like this:
After a decade of dealing with Trump, Salmond and a lot of other Scots say they made a mistake. That they were seduced by Trump’s promises. That he talked big but didn’t deliver. Not on the jobs he promised or the billions he said he’d invest. And on top of that, he came to be known as a brash, loud-mouthed bully.
Is any of that shocking? Maybe not. But at least now we know with certainty that if Trump’s campaign to be U.S. president falls flat, he will not be able to take refuge in Scotland.
And, there's the problem with FR.
It’s an election
You take sides
No doubt. I just don't see any sense in losing one's sense of right and wrong over it.
So let him build a golf course around old faithful.
Helluva idea! :-)
Would be awesome! hole in one, wait 12 minutes and your ball is returned!
"a select few top-ranked ones have proved elusive — ...Trump Scotland... — so they don’t make it on the list even though I’m sure they’d warrant great consideration."
So he has not been able to play it. Good grief don't you even read your own posts?
Funny - Scotland puts up roadblocks and sabotages a project, then a “Stop Trump Even If It Means Hillary In The White House” type finds a way to blame the guy they sabotaged - and some GOPe cat’s-paw decides to post it as if it has any relevance.
Cat’s-Paw. I like it. Beats some of the others recently at this formerly civil site.
So he won’t get the vote in Scotland?
Greatest golf course in the world should have gotten a 7 at least, eh?
The rating was up to 5 stars, dumb dumb.
oh, good grief. Let me explain it to you. the best was five, the greatest in the world, the GREATEST Yugest in the world should have been beyond the pale, off the charts, and given a 7.
Let me explain it to you: Your post is embarrassing. Please commit ritual suicide. It's the only way to solve the problems in your life.
another wardaddy gem not to be missed
“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” The Worthy Lamb...
“Can you say, ‘We will first walk in His righteousness, and will observe His judgments, and will act in a worthy way, so that He will give His grace to us’? But what good would you evil people do? And how would you do those good things, unless you were yourselves good? But Who causes people to be good? Only He Who said, ‘And I will visit them to make them good,’ and, ‘I will put my Spirit within you, and will cause you to walk in my righteousness, and to observe my judgments, and do them’(Ezek.36:27). Are you asleep? Can’t you hear Him saying, ‘I will cause you to walk, I will make you to observe,’ lastly,’I will make you to do’? Really, are you still puffing yourselves up? We walk, true enough, and we observe, and we do; but it is God Who He makes us to walk, to observe, to do. This is the grace of God making us good; this is His mercy going before us.” Augustine - Against Two Letters of the Pelagians, 4:15
Actually only on special occasions like weddings. Or a soccer or rugby match obviously lol.
On a more serious note, those ‘men’ were the backbone of your freedom in 1776-83 (Scots and Ulster Scots). Those ‘men’ have a famous reputation of toughness. One well deserved, even today.
Nope, not all. Many Scots are at best a vagueish centre-left, others centre or right.
People?. You DO realise very few Scots agreed with McAskill’s decision to release Megrahi?.
Scots are not anti-American, quite the opposite. And not all Scots are socialist and certainly not zealots about it.
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