Donald Trump to build second golf course in Scotland despite objections

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Scottsman


President Donald Trump's company is to build a second golf course in Aberdeenshire.
By Emma O'Neill/PA
Saturday, 17th October 2020, 9:18 pm

Plans for a new 18-hole golf course were approved by Aberdeenshire Council on Friday, despite local objections.

The course is to be named MacLeod after Mr Trump's mother, Mary Anne MacLeod - who was born in the Outer Hebrides - and will be built adjacent to the current course on his Menie Estate.

. . .

However, many locals objected to the application, citing loss of public space and the impact it would have on water supply, private roads and nearby estates.

Sam Lowit, Morningside Avenue, Aberdeen, said: "It is clear that the existing underperforming development is not of benefit to this area, with low attendance figures and ongoing financial losses.


Read more: https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/donald-trump-build-second-golf-course-scotland-despite-objections-3006952

[tanyev]

1. Well how else is he going to launder more Russian money?

[erronis]

5. My first thought also. Then there are casinos and empty residential towers

I wonder if he shouldn't look into building luxury prisons. Perhaps with suites dedicated to lifetime residents. But individual occupancy - no visits from Ivanka in your wet dreams, Don.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Using our tax dollars???

I can't build a deck on my back porch and I'm not $1 in debt. But he can build a golf course with $450M in debt? That's just so wrong.

[Retrograde]

3. Doesn't he have a country to ruin, er, run?

Who actually is driving this? One of his sons? If so, why are we paying for Secret Service protection for them while they're on private business.

I think it's another money-laundering scheme.

[Illumination]

4. It might not last long if his assets are seized & he goes bust...

[erronis]

6. To the kochs/mercers/murdochs/putins/etc. - trump operations are just a front

they don't care if it's djt in prison, dumpjr, bannon, whoever. They just want their money laundered. NOW!

[bluestarone]

7. I hope some people put a STOP to this

God Dam i hate this fucker.

[ananda]

8. I wonder if he used taxpayer money..

.. to pay off the council.

I bet they are way oiled.

[JI7]

9. How is this even possible ? Can those council members be voted out ?

[canetoad]

10. It won't happen

Getting planning permission is a long way off building a golf course. He's broke and a billion or more in debt.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. 2017: "Although foreign deals are on hold..." - whatever happened to that?

Trump sons take helm of company, eye domestic expansion

Although foreign deals are on hold, the company will complete existing projects, including ones in India, the United Arab Emirates and the Dominican Republic.

...
Some business has slowed as a result of the pledge to stall international dealmaking while Trump is president. But a US push is planned, and two new hotel chains are being considered — a four-star brand and a less luxurious line — possibly in states where Trump triumphed over Democrat Hillary Clinton last November.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/trump-sons-take-helm-of-company-eye-domestic-expansion/story-oQb74rZcjdEcj69zJAPUZP.html

Another con.

[riversedge]

14. #LiarinChief

[Historic NY]

12. Import some gophers....

[jayschool2013]

13. This guy

[pecosbob]

15. Sounds like a job for Monsieur Gopher

[George II]

16. When he builds one in Bavaria he can name it "Draft Dodger" after his grandfather who was deported..

...from Bavaria for avoiding his mandatory military obligation.

[Totally Tunsie]

17. What's the matter...he isn't losing enough with his other Scottish course?

Needs a bigger tax write-off?

LOSER!!!!

[sarcasmo]

18. Who's financing this project?

[mdbl]

19. that was my question

he has no cash

[paleotn]

20. No, they're not....

Oh, they may "plan" to, but it will never come to fruition. The company, if you want to call it that, is bankrupt. Donnie as well once the indictments begin. If he does stay out of jail, he'll spend his last years like Randell and Mortimer Duke.

[yuiyoshida]

21. Donald Trump is NOT THE KING OF SCOTLAND nor the RULER OF THE WORLD

tell HIM TO PISS OFF!!!!!!!

[Demovictory9]

22. to double the rate he loses money?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

23. Bolt, you orange-faced arse-mouthed wankstain!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

24. How much is Trump's latest folly going to cost American taxpayers?

He'll have to fly Air Force One to Scotland to check his project, and this will create another location for aircrews to stay enroute from Europe to the U.S.

We can't get this grifter out of the WH soon enough.

[DFW]

25. Just who will be writing the checks to finance THIS one?

I figure Putin and Deutsche Bank are out this time. So who else would lend him money? Raquel y Vidas? No one else comes to mind. The only collateral he has had for years now was his promise to use his ill-gotten office to work paybacks by executive order and legislation rammed through by McTurtle. That comes to an end in very short order, even if he does get Amy Phony Carrot onto the court.