Balmedie, Scotland – chairman Trump is going to come to Scotland His first election for a four-day private visit was held in Friday-Britain since his first election. The White House says that he will meet with the end of his visit with the Prime Minister Kir Stmper to discuss the business, but he will also open a new course at the Trump International Golf Link.
Set on the rugged northeast coast of Scotland, it is a surprisingly beautiful place, and it is easy to see that Sri Trump was eager to buy the site more than a decade ago and develop it in a world -class golf club.
But as CBS News learned from speaking with local people, many struggle to separate the politics of US President from their green color.
David Milne bought his old Coast Guard look-out on the Aberdeenshire coast 20 years ago, and he still remains there today. But since 2012, it is correct in the middle of the Trump region, surrounded by shifting sand dunes in hundreds of acres, which are carefully coined in 36 holes, which can play any round – for about $ 500.
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Milne is not happy about his new neighbor.
“This is always the second best that was originally,” told CBS News. “When I came here, this landscape was untouched … Now it is just a golf course.”
Mr. Trump first bought land in 2006, and during development he offered to buy some neighbors’ places, but Milne refused to sell.
In 2011, Mr. Trump said that he did not like the form of the property of Milne anyway.
“Who cares,” the future president told the golf channel pointing to Milne’s house. “We are trying to make the largest course in the world. The house is ugly.”
Asked what the land meant for himself and his family, Milne said it was much more than a patch of the picturesque beach.
“Land is the one that is Scotland. Not only financially, it is also in the soul of Scottish people. It is where we come, and where we go back,” he said.
The visit to Scotland is also a homecoming for Mr. Trump. His mother, the birth of Mary Anne McLeod in 1912, grew up on Lewis’s Scottish Hebridian Island. He named one of his syllabus after him after him in Aberdeenshire.
Mr. Trump has received a protest on previous visits, and barbarity in his golf course has taken a political tone in recent months.
Tommy Campbell, an experienced Labor Union activist from Scotland, told CBS News that he was planning to lead another protest during the US leader’s visit later this week, with a clear message for Mr. Trump:
“You are not welcome here,” he said. “The policies he represents are completely with Auds that we give importance here.”
A survey conducted in February found that about 70% of the Scots have an adverse opinion of President Trump. In the village near his golf link, CBS News spoke with members of a walking club, who make a complaint.
A woman said, “The way they treated neighbors and property owners, I think we all badly impressed us.”
But the course employs over 80 people, and the White House says that the region has had positive economic impact.
A local person – a golfer – told CBS News that the business Mr. Trump has done, “From the perspective of a golf, it is fantastic.”
He said, “It is not right to say.” “Some goods, I agree with the protesters, but I think there is a time and a place for it, and it is not on the golf course.”
Rai about President Trump is like weather in Aberdeenshire. But fair or dishonesty – in the right Scottish fashion – they are unlikely to stop a good phase of golf.