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Donald Trump reportedly chastised Scotland's first minister over plans for a windfarm off the coast and near his luxury golf course development.
Donald Trump claims Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond, seems "hell-bent on destroying Scotland's coastline" and making a laughingstock of the country with a wind farm near the billionaire businessman's golf resort, British media reported Thursday.
In a letter to Salmond, Trump said of the proposal for 11 64-story offshore turbines, "With the reckless installation of these monsters, you will single-handedly have done more damage to Scotland than virtually any event in Scottish history."
Trump is nearing completion of the first golf course at his $1.2 billion resort near Aberdeen. It was to include a second 18-hole course, a five-star hotel, luxury villas and timeshare apartments, but last month he froze plans for all but the first course until a decision is made on the "ugly monstrosities."
The windfarm, The European Offshore Wind Deployment Center, is a $237 million venture by Swedish utility company Vattenfall, engineering firm Technip and Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group, the Scotland Daily Record reported.
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Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, was the subject of a scathing letter by billionaire businessman Donald Trump.
Trump, who touts his "world's greatest golf course" as a generator of 7,000 jobs, said he will fight the wind farm, which Scottish officials have said could power the country seven times over.
"As a matter of fact, I have just authorized my staff to allocate a substantial amount of money to launch an international campaign to fight your plan to surround Scotland's coast with many thousands of wind turbines." He added: "Please understand that I am doing this to save Scotland."
The BBC reported that Trump also said in the letter, "Taxing your citizens to subsidize wind projects owned by foreign energy companies will destroy your country and its economy. Jobs will not be created in Scotland because these ugly monstrosities known as turbines are manufactured in other countries such as China.
"These countries are laughing at you," he wrote, likening the turbines to "bars of a prison."
"Luckily, tourists will not suffer because there will be none as they will be going to other countries that had the foresight to use other forms of energy."
The Scottish government says the country's waters "are estimated to have as much as a quarter of Europe's potential offshore wind energy. A recent study suggests that harnessing just a third of the practical resource off our coast by 2050 would enable us to generate enough electricity to power Scotland seven times over.... An independent Scotland will be able to take full responsibility for this renewables revolution, along with the investment and thousands of jobs it brings."
Trump last year blamed a failing global economy for delaying Aberdeen's luxury development, according to a report at the time in The Guardian. "The world has crashed" since 2005, Trump said, citing the timing of his purchase of the Menie estate and dunes.
The purchase provoked a long-running battle with local residents, councillors and environmental groups about his proposals, which involved heavily altering the legally protected rare dunes, The Guardian reported.
Trump is using the wind farm as an excuse to cut and run, David Milne, a neighbor of the Trump property who has refused to yield to the developer and sell him his home, told The Guardian in January.
In pursuing the Scottish estate for his project, Trump has touted Scotland as the birthplace of his mother, Mary MacLeod. A New York Daily News story from June 2008 shows him outside a house in Tong, on the Isle of Lewis, where his mother was brought up before she emigrated to the U.S.
"She grew up in a simple croft until she landed in Manhattan at the age of 20 and her first language was Gaelic," says a Trump-signed letter on the Trump International-Scotland website, which also traces his Scottish ancestry.
Msnbc.com's Jim Gold contributed to this story.
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Hey Trump, if you never had a golf course there, would you feel the same way, duh!
Why is the Donald talking? He is the biggest blow hard there is so one would that a wind farm should be a no brainer for this bozo. Oh ......I get the wind messes his comb over up.
Hey Trump, people didn't like electric poles and wires either but they became a part of everyday life.
Progress marches on.
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Trump won't win this one ....
Eco friendly power Trumps his holes .... I mean golf course ....
"the wind farm, which Scottish officials have said could power the country seven times over".
bet the big wig energy companies would not like that!
Donald says hes doing it for Scotland. Wow what a great guy, hes always spending his money for others, not himself, I mean its obviously not for his resort at all. Aww, so sweet, I love you Donald and care for you so much as you care so much for others.
To Trump: U Mad Bro?
Mt Trump, it is such a shame you will lose your "friends" money in your failing "resort". Scotland will do just fine with the wind turbines and if you would care to vent more of your hot air to the publics good you could sit near one and power it with your own bad breath. WHO GAVE THIS EGOTIST IDIOT A MICROPHONE? This couldn't have happened to a more deserving POS!
WTF..why is Trump worried about Scotland? I figure he wanted to build a casino there I bet.
That wig he wears is to tight..hurting his BRAINS if any left!
Oh WAAAAAA! Like the Scots give a flying fig over what The Donald says. It's past time for us to follow their lead and ignore this tacky blowhard.
I'm confused, why does anyone care what Trump says?
Trump is a juvenile delinquent with a come over from Hell
While, I don' normally think of Trump as being an advocate of the Earth, he's right on target with this assessment. Of course, Trump's destruction of the Earth is astronomical in its impacts to Earth's ecosystems and biological diversity,: he's on target on his assessments of killing and entombing and slathering Earth's natural, physical body over with dead planet are relevant to the science of ecology.
Man exists only because of Earth's ecosystems, and ecosystems exist only because of their plant and animal biodiversity; ecosystems above all else, are the eco-nomy of life itself, including man's. Let's try on, all the reasons man breathes and exists.
The necessity to exploit renewable resources Trumps Trump. His resorts will do just fine and he's a myopic idiot not to understand the need for this sort of sacrifice. I used to think more of Trump as a developer, but now I am left thisnking how uncooperative and short sighted he really is.
Go Scottland, you have little in the way of natural resources, this will a critical add to your future.
Hey trump, you are a liar. You are not doing this to save Scotland. You are doing this for your own selfish interests. The World needs wind farms and not more golf courses and luxury condos for the privileged few.
Who gives a rats colon what Donald Chump says! If those wind mills were off the Atlantic City coast powering his casinos, he'd have no trouble with that as long as someone else were paying for it! That's right Donald, your favorite saying, "Other People's Money"! Never You're Own!
Donald Dump Trump cares about Scotland.....oh pull the other one!
Can we please bundle up the Dumpster, Crazy Sarah, and Salamander Newt and send them off to the moon to start the colony...soon!
Don Get your azz back to the USA and stop being a pest. Bars of a prison? We see it as FREEDOM to make our own CHOICES to NOT put money in YOUR pocket.
To Europeans he's just another ridiculous looking American big mouth who cannot be taken serious on any level. Folks like him really helped America's reputation in the world - in a bad way.
Resorts and windmills farms, both kill Earth's natural ecosystems or Earth's natural, physical body and face that create and support all life, including the ecologically illiterate, Scots and Trumps, all clueless as to the hows and whys Earth sustains and supports all life, including theirs. Humans are the only animal stupid enough to kill his eco, his house, his only home, the Earth.
Killing ecosystems also heats up and drys out the climate, aborts oxygen releasing, the atmosphere, the nitrogen cycle, hydrological storage and flux, the sequestration of those heat trapping gases, the creation and renewal of a life giving soil, the entirety of Earth's biogeochemistry and a long list of all the reasons man exists. Bulldozers, earth-movers, concrete and chain saws, solar panel dead fields and metal windmills, all kill the Earth.
UltraSuperNextGen Power Systems announced today that within a few years it will be able to convert the exhaust from public speakers and politicians mouths into self sustaining energy. Company spokesman Dewey Cheatham said, "The conversion from Donald Trump's pronouncements in one week alone could potentially power the entire island of Manhattan for a month, maybe even two months." Company analyst Ann D. Howe said that the potential conversion rate from one week in the Washington DC area could power the entire East Cost for three months. "If only we could keep the politicians working, we might actually end our dependence on foriegn oil," she lamented.
Now we all know he as his money invested in "Big Oil". He doesn't want wind-farms because it will tap in to his dirty profits.
It's just a bunch a quacking that he only knows how to do every time he opens his mouth.
A PERFECT EXAMPLE of a Republican!!!!!!!!! Scotland should declare him Persona Non Gratis and exile him to Outer Mongolia -- in the middle of the Gobi Desert without food nor water. Then we will see how he fares. Who knows, he might blow all of the sand away exposing an oasis or two with his huffing and puffing.
Scotland doesn't need him or his ilk. Neither do we!
Shut your pie-hole Trump.....This guy is such a blow-hard they could hook him up to a turbine and power up most of Jersey!
So Donald wants to make a resort for the 1% and deny cheap power for the 99%
He endorsed Romney, and he lost the next 3 primary states. This could be this Scottish politicians bonanza. I think it safer to be attacked by Trump, then his endorsement. If the Scots really want rid of Trump, just tell him there's a hot Russian chick he hasn't married yet in London !
Trump really should stick with starring in (and endlessly promoting) The Apprentice. At least there he sounds like a filthy rich, stubborn, arrogant badass when he tells'em "You're fired!" In real life, he's just a filthy rich (or maybe not), stubborn, arrogant fool.
Me, I'm voting the Obama/Wind-Farming Ugly Monstrosities ticket in 2012, because every time Obama digs a hole or makes a cave, the GOP blows a deeper one (and their feet) with their verbal dynamite and sheer lack of heart and concern.
Trump's many things, but he's no fool! Greedy, shrewd, backstabbing and filty rich because of it. But no fool!
Sorry Tiger, there is no fool bigger than the Donald the Dumpster
Oh Left-Handed -- ::gag::
I was just on my way to lunch too.
I think I need brain bleach.
I suspect Romey is re-considering the endorsement of the Dumpster right about now, that endorsement probably seems more like a lead weight around his neck that he would like to rid himself of.....and it is only going to get worse every time the Dumpster opens his mouth.....oh well they deserve each other.
There's something about Donald's face you know?........ i think just one good punch might fix it......there's just something about it.
And if I was the head of Scotland, I would then seize his golf course, not pay him for it, and build the windmills on what was once his golf course.
If I were Donald Trump, I'd be more worried about that increasingly obvious comb-over, not power generating windmills in Scotland. How can anyone take him seriously with that going on up on top of his head??
Dutch, nope, he wishes to kill the Earth's ecosystems with his resorts, but then the Scots are doing the same killing of the physical body of Earth or Earth's natural ecosystems. Regardless if the planet is entombed by a resort or a dead field of dead, metal windmills, it spells the same, death to that much of the natural physical body and face of the Earth, her wild, natural ecosystems.
The construction of the windmills that require soil disturbances and deforestation of the natural Earth result in the same ecocide, death to Earth as ecosystems are the life giving and supporting of the Earth. Killing ecosystems for any reason results in killing man's only life-supporting systems or Earth's ecosystems, every and all reasons man breathes.
Resorts and windmills are dead as the surface of Mars and cannot release oxygen, stabilize the atmosphere, naturally regulate and moderate the climate, sequester naturally the heat trapping gases like no other on the planet; provide the nitrogen cycle [life itself, including the air man breathes] the hydrological storage and flux and a long list of every reason man breathes...
Resorts and dead fields of windmills kill the following:
"The natural ecosystems of the Earth are like the life-support system of a spacecraft. They each take part in the cycles of water and nutrients and the passage of energy through food webs and food chains according to strict natural laws. Natural ecosystems are the life support systems of spaceship Earth. Each ecosystem depend on the integrated workings of many different living species." ICPB
Hey, how about sterilizing the Malignant Breeders....the Immigrants. Then we wont need any wind farms.
skor154: The sea. The sea. Not the land.
Trump, will you shut that prissy mouth of your up? You don't care about the environment, just your golf course. It is those like you that got this world and economy in the situation it is in now. We need cheaper and cleaner energy. We don't need one more energy consuming place for the rich to play. Who cares what your opinion is about anything?
Poor Donald do you find it difficult to live in the 21st century, bone up big man and get in the program. Every Scot to suffer for Donny boy, windpower for your opulence. Stow it American.
Scottish American here saying; Right on weedermeir.
GO SCOTLAND !!!!!!!!
Independence or bust. Best thing that will ever happen to Scotland is shedding the English tyrants.
ehhhhhh DT showed up in downtown Tampa for a while....... can't imagine how much that cost us...
Did he complain about something there too .... ??
The Sky Way Bridge maybe ....
Donald is apparently afraid that the wind turbines will mess up his hair.
It's not his hair.
Genetically speaking of course. He paid good money for it.
It's a dead squirrel.
IMO it's a rat's nest
Id say he is more nervous about something else blowing hot air...
Ah poor little Donnie, it appears Alex Salmond peed' in the Donald's drink. Who else but the chumpster would think about saving Scotland for his own use and profit.............
Donald, build a golf course in Iran and make them quit thretening the world or trying to supposedly build nuclear weapons.
The Iranians would just find new ways to kill with the clubs. It's what they do !!!
So to clarify Trump is arguing that Scotland should not build the wind mills because his golf coarse has more economic value for the country than cheap unlimited power for the country. Also he is complaining that foreign investors are trying to dictate how the country operates. Um trump you are a foreign investor and i think the people of Scotland would prefer cheap clean power indefinitely over your golf coarse.
Trump railroaded a number of people who did not want to sell their land. Investigations should be conducted as the bastard paid off some gov officials. There is a documentary called 'You've Been Trumped' that has won awards at various US film festivals. It reveals how Trump went in like a bull in a china shop with his $$ and screwed people. Cut off water to old owners who wouldn't sell their property. He 'bought the cops' and had the film producer arrested for talking to one of the non-sellers. Typical Trump bully power. I so hope Scotland opened their eyes and puts the screws to him. I'd donate to it!!
See producer in an interview plus other vid on site about arrest. Remove () from around 'dots':
www(.)oprah(.)com/rosie/Rosies-Thoughts-on-Youve-Been-Trumped-Video
Hey Don, mind your own business.
P.S. Bet'cha couldn't get a girl without your money. Ha Ha Ha.....You are as pathetic as Rosie; no man wants her, no woman really wants you.
Rosie is a well known lesbian, so, there's that..
Actually -- doesn't say much for his wife!! Her prenup must be good as you could only marry it for $$
Yea, because everybody knows how golf courses--aka several hundred acre chemical stews--are the greenest kind of development around. Golf courses are a pustulation of the earth's surface on which the rich play.
Because only the rich play golf? You're almost as bright as Trump.
In any country in the world, the number of people that DON'T play golf far exceeds those that do. While his description of those that DO play as rich if far from true, pushing a country to forgo plans that will benefit all of the nation and instead implement plans that do not is pretty arrogant. Also, this wind farm plan is so large in scope it would have been under consideration far longer than Donald's plans to build a resort. He should be ticked off at his staff for not knowing/telling him about it long before the investment group started building the resort.
Tad.S........peebal might have been thinking that only the rich...or their guests, play golf at courses such as the ones Chump owns. The greens fees for one round and an overnight stay are probably half the take home pay for a average worker for a week. That sure doesn't sound like the 2100 yd. par three with a soda machine for refreshments around here that average 99%'ers play at.
As far as Trump worrying about Scotland.....I'd say Trump is worrying that his vision of high end homes, condos and rooms for the future might not be EXACTLY what he had in mind.....not what the people of Sctland need or want. Also, isn't it quite humorous that Trump lectures on about foreign business interests actions in Scotland? He scolds Scotland because the wind turbines wil be made in a foreign country and won't provide any jobs for the people in Scotland? I wonder if he knows where the golf clubs, golf balls, bags and carts will be made that will be used on his golf course? I mean....what the heck? The electricity is the focus here....or isn't it? Trump acts like they sited the wind mills right in front of his resort just to spite him....they wouldn't do that to the donald....would they?
One thing is certain, Trump and his ilk are taking a long trip down when their time comes. His billions won't be worth two cents down there. Words from Jesus, Luke, Mark, and Matthew.
Ah - the ugly orange American decides to insult Scotland because he can't have his own way; way to go, Donald - you must be so proud of yourself. Score one for the 1% t-rump - an international cry-baby.
Nobody cares what you have to say about anything anymore, Mr. Trump.
I was going to say that this man is an embarrassment to all Americans, but it's bigger than that. He's an embarrassment to the human race. His golf course is more important than clean power for Scotland. How incredibly arrogant.
Who died and made Donald Trump king?Reality politics is bad enough without throwing this fool into the mix.M.S.M. has more real questions to answer than it ever asks.
It would have generated "7,000" jobs. Right. Just watch, next month it'll have been "10,000" jobs, then "15,000" jobs....
Maybe he meant 70 jobs. What a job creator!
Seems ironic, a blow hard trying to stop the construction of a wind farm. I guess the Donald just doesn't want the competition. Not to worry Donnie boy, I'm confident you have more wind then a million wind farms.
Wind farms are fun
Just think dumbazz Donald Trump was thinking about running for President. This kind a sh** does not look good for idiot Trump. Trump You're FIRED now GO.
Oh boo hoo hoo Trump, oh how it will destroy the view at your resort.
Every time Trumpty Dumpty opens his mouth a foul wind blows -- what an arrogant gas bag!
Donald Trump is the biggest douchebag ever, and a sorry excuse for a human being. I wish he would already just go away already.
THAT IS UTTERLY REDICULOUS ; all this talk of this man making a laughing stock of his part of the globe. trump needs to stop trying to get those fifteen minute fame speeches, '' trying to look like he's the smartest man in that part of the country. THE MAN IS HARD TO LISTEN TO, BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE RIGHT THROUGH HIM.
Whaaaaaaa whaaaaaaa I'm Tonald Frump....you can't do that. Whaaaaaaaaaa whaaaaaa You're fired. Whaaaaaaaa whaaaaaa...screw him.
Why would anyone care what Donald Trump wants?
... only his next ex-wife's attorney would care ....
Trump is a dbag who NEVER has anyones interest but his own in mind. Remember that and he will cease to be a mystery!
This "combover" is an embarrasment to this country. He's complaining because it might hurt his view! He has a wonderful way of getting on the good side of the government by speaking to them like that. They need to take him down more than a few pegs. Boy, is he a dick-brain!
well it's as if the people have spoken Don and it appears that your a dumbass, myself I think your a piece of crap. But I mean that in a good way. Bet your ready to pour stop leak in their bagpipes.