Trump Wants to Build Golf Course in Scotland ‘for the Environment’

Donald Trump gets a lot of flak, and he likes it that way – it’s attention. I really believe that his bizarre hair is a carefully orchestrated part of a highly choreographed persona that he has created. How else can you explain that this billionaire, despite much teasing from the public, won’t let a stylist near his hair? Maybe he’s hiding a golden egg under there. Anyway, The Donald is creating controversy once again by stating that the golf course he wants to create on a stretch of untouched land in Scotland is ‘green’.

The Independent has it:

Donald Trump wants to create the world’s finest golf course on an unspoilt stretch of northern Scotland. Merely creating a “world class” course would not be good enough; it has to be better than the Old Course at St Andrews, he claimed yesterday.

The US billionaire was giving evidence at the opening day of a public inquiry into his plan to develop a site that includes sand dunes that are home to a rich variety of wildlife, on the Menie estate near Aberdeen. Mr Trump presented himself as an ecologically concerned entrepreneur, but when he described himself as “an environmentalist”, the reaction from the public gallery was so loud that the inquiry chairman, James McCulloch, demanded silence.

Mr Trump claimed his golf course was more likely to improve the local environment than damage it. He suggested the site was not very attractive in its present condition, though he agreed that it had the potential to be one of the finest sites in the world.

Of course, environmentalists have objected, and the development was turned down by the council in Aberdeenshire. Trump, in return, threatened that turning it down would be bad for Scotland because it would discourage future investors. Scotland’s first minister is still trying to bring the project to fruition, noting that it would create jobs.

Perhaps the birds that Trump’s golf course would displace can take up residence in his hair instead.

Link [The Independent]
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