Donald Trump swept into Scotland's parliament on Wednesday to demand the country end plans for an offshore wind farm he fears will spoil the view at his exclusive new $1.2-billion golf resort.

In a typically blunt display, the property tycoon told an inquiry into renewable energy to stop the wind power efforts in the country's north.

"Scotland, if you pursue this policy of these monstrous turbines, Scotland will go broke," he said. "They are ugly, they are noisy and they are dangerous. If Scotland does this, Scotland will be in serious trouble and will lose tourism to places like Ireland, and they are laughing at us."

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Donald Trump speaks to members of public following his address to the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday.

Members of the committee are looking at how achievable the Scottish government's green targets for 2020 are. The plans for 11 200-foot tall wind turbines are part of the government's goal of positioning itself as a leader in renewable energy.

When challenged to produce hard evidence about his claims on the negative impact of turbines, Trump said: "I am the evidence, I am a world-class expert in tourism."

The public gallery burst into laughter.

'They wanted my money'
Trump claimed Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond and his predecessor Jack McConnell gave him verbal assurances a wind farm would not be built off the coast of his resort.

"They wanted my money," Trump said. "I was lured into buying the site, after I had spent my money they came and announced the plan. At the time I bought the land I felt confident the wind farm was not going to happen."

The inquiry, recorded by broadcaster BBC Scotland, heard that Trump paid $7.2 million for the majority of the land eight miles north of Aberdeen in January 2006. The resort is due to open on July 10.

There was an irony to Trump's complaints: When Salmond backed Trump's plans for the resort, he was hailed a "great man" by the tycoon.

Only four years ago, the two men appeared to be the best of golfing friends, when Mr Trump invited Salmond and actor Sir Sean Connery – who endorses Salmond’s pro-independence political party -- to join him on the first tee at the opening of the resort.

But Trump turned on the leader over plans to put the wind farm off the coast and within view of the golf course. He claims the turbines will ruin the environment and will be bad for tourism.

In February, Trump wrote a public letter to Salmond announcing an international crusade against wind farm developments around Scotland’s coast, The Scotsman reported.

In a furious attack, Trump accused Salmond of being “hell-bent on destroying Scotland’s coastline and therefore Scotland itself.”

He wrote: “You will single-handedly have done more damage to Scotland than virtually any event in Scottish history!”

The course was built on sand dunes despite protests from locals and environmentalists. The dunes, which were home to rare wading birds, were bulldozed to make way for the fairways in 2009 and 2010.

Scotland's tourism agency said its own research shows 83 percent of UK visitors will not be turned off by turbines.

"We are both reassured and encouraged by the findings of our survey which suggest that, at the current time, the overwhelming majority of consumers do not feel wind farms spoil the look of the countryside," said VisitScotland chief Malcolm Roughead.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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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