A day after Trump's alleged pivot
https://mediamatters.org/video/2016/06/22/msnbc-guest-asks-media-how-stupid-can-we-possibly-be-keep-getting-fooled-trumps-pivots/211116
Trump is going to Scotland. No, he's not meeting with any world leaders, or anything related to his political campaign. It's about his own business again.
The Irish Prime Minister refused to meet with him though later changed his mind. The PM said he would meet with Trump to denounce him to his face as a racist and a bigot.
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/politics/EXCLUSIVE-Donald-Trump-cancels-trip-to-Ireland-next-week.html
So the Irish leg of the trip was cancelled.
Jennifer Rubin:
"Consider the following data points:
"First, down in the polls, pummeled for a lack of fundraising and lacking a serious organization, Donald Trump goes to Scotland for his own business purposes. He won’t go to Altoona, Pa., or Youngstown, Ohio, but he’ll go to a golf course across the Atlantic. The golf project, by the way, is a flop.The Post reports:
"Over the past decade, Trump has battled with homeowners, elbowed his way through the planning process, shattered relationships with elected leaders and sued the Scottish government. On top of that, he has yet to fulfill the lofty promises he made. Trump has also reported to Scottish authorities that he lost millions of dollars on the project — even as he claims on U.S. presidential disclosure forms that the course has been highly profitable."
"Second, the Trumps seem not that concerned about losing the general election. The Post reported recently:
"[W]hat if a man who has built his brand on victory loses the general election? When does a scorched-earth presidential campaign become a liability for the family? The company? The country?"
"It doesn’t, Don Jr. says."
“I think we’re probably net neutral, and maybe internationally we’re ahead, because the name recognition is so powerful today,” he says. “DJT Jr.” is embroidered on the breast pocket of his pink button-down shirt.
"Eric agrees."
“If we don’t win the last part of it, we’ll do what our family has always done and that’s build the greatest projects in the world,” he says, echoing his father.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/06/23/trump-desperately-needs-an-escape-plan-and-delegates-can-provide-it/
Rubin loves this talk of the 'last part of it.'
"Win the “last part of it”? Well, like Trump steaks, they just go on to the next sales job. Never has a candidate had so little to lose from, well, losing."
"No, though the country has so much to gain. Meanwhile, while Irish eyes may not be smiling about Trump, he's no favorite son in his mother's Scotland either these days."
"How Trump wore out his Scottish welcome."
Tweeddale lord: “Somewhere along the lines his Scottish heritage has gone awry.”
"In a land where Donald Trump first stormed the national political stage a decade ago, few are eager for his return on Thursday, when he will arrive for his maiden voyage abroad as the presumptive Republican nominee."
"Rather than huddle with foreign dignitaries or address adoring masses, Trump will visit his golf courses. The businessman, who arrived here in 2006 to great fanfare and considerable political support, has since become a national bogeyman, his candidacy rattling Scots to the point that the country’s leaders now openly worry about the damage a Trump presidency could inflict on the United Kingdom’s most important alliance."
“As far as U.K.-U.S. relations are concerned, I think we’d have to build very strong allies in other parts of the administration and the U.S. Congress, because inevitably they would be strained,” Jeremy Purvis, a member of the U.K.’s House of Lords from southern Scotland, told POLITICO.
"Initially, Trump’s promise to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into a development in northern Scotland, a region anxious about its post-oil future, was welcomed by many. Since then, Trump’s attempts to evict his neighbors, his opposition to an offshore wind farm, and now his bombastic presidential campaign, have turned national opinion decidedly against him."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-scotland-224690#ixzz4CQtxBJda
The Scotts worry that Trump's possible Presidency could set back US-UK relations generations.
Those who think that somehow Trump's skill as a businessman make him the guy to fix the US economy maybe should consult Scotland and their experience.
Meanwhile, things have not worked out on the golf course.
"Jenna Johnson tells the story of Donald Trump’s troubled Scottish golf course, which he still somehow touts as evidence of his business acumen and international success:
"But to many people in Scotland, his course here has been a failure. Over the past decade, Trump has battled with homeowners, elbowed his way through the planning process, shattered relationships with elected leaders and sued the Scottish government. On top of that, he has yet to fulfill the lofty promises he made."
"Trump has also reported to Scottish authorities that he lost millions of dollars on the project — even as he claims on U.S. presidential disclosure forms that the course has been highly profitable."
"Trump’s original plan: a sprawling resort in the ancestral home of golf with two courses, a 450-room luxury hotel and spa, a conference center, employee housing, a turf-grass research center and a holiday community with hundreds of villas, condos and homes. The project would pump millions of dollars into the local economy and create 6,000 jobs — maybe even 7,000 jobs, Trump said at one news conference. Tourists would travel here from around the world, he promised, along with well-known celebrities such as Scottish actor Sean Connery."
"Today, the Trump International Golf Links near Aberdeen employs just 150 people and consists of one golf course that meanders through the sand dunes, a clubhouse with a restaurant and 19 rooms for rent in a renovated mansion and former carriage house. There is also a maintenance facility and a road running through the property. Lonely and desolate, the resort has attracted no major tournaments, and neighbors say the parking lot is rarely, if ever, full."
"That has kind of a familiar ring, doesn’t it?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/06/22/happy-hour-roundup-886/
https://mediamatters.org/video/2016/06/22/msnbc-guest-asks-media-how-stupid-can-we-possibly-be-keep-getting-fooled-trumps-pivots/211116
Trump is going to Scotland. No, he's not meeting with any world leaders, or anything related to his political campaign. It's about his own business again.
The Irish Prime Minister refused to meet with him though later changed his mind. The PM said he would meet with Trump to denounce him to his face as a racist and a bigot.
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/politics/EXCLUSIVE-Donald-Trump-cancels-trip-to-Ireland-next-week.html
So the Irish leg of the trip was cancelled.
Jennifer Rubin:
"Consider the following data points:
"First, down in the polls, pummeled for a lack of fundraising and lacking a serious organization, Donald Trump goes to Scotland for his own business purposes. He won’t go to Altoona, Pa., or Youngstown, Ohio, but he’ll go to a golf course across the Atlantic. The golf project, by the way, is a flop.The Post reports:
"Over the past decade, Trump has battled with homeowners, elbowed his way through the planning process, shattered relationships with elected leaders and sued the Scottish government. On top of that, he has yet to fulfill the lofty promises he made. Trump has also reported to Scottish authorities that he lost millions of dollars on the project — even as he claims on U.S. presidential disclosure forms that the course has been highly profitable."
"Second, the Trumps seem not that concerned about losing the general election. The Post reported recently:
"[W]hat if a man who has built his brand on victory loses the general election? When does a scorched-earth presidential campaign become a liability for the family? The company? The country?"
"It doesn’t, Don Jr. says."
“I think we’re probably net neutral, and maybe internationally we’re ahead, because the name recognition is so powerful today,” he says. “DJT Jr.” is embroidered on the breast pocket of his pink button-down shirt.
"Eric agrees."
“If we don’t win the last part of it, we’ll do what our family has always done and that’s build the greatest projects in the world,” he says, echoing his father.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/06/23/trump-desperately-needs-an-escape-plan-and-delegates-can-provide-it/
Rubin loves this talk of the 'last part of it.'
"Win the “last part of it”? Well, like Trump steaks, they just go on to the next sales job. Never has a candidate had so little to lose from, well, losing."
"No, though the country has so much to gain. Meanwhile, while Irish eyes may not be smiling about Trump, he's no favorite son in his mother's Scotland either these days."
"How Trump wore out his Scottish welcome."
Tweeddale lord: “Somewhere along the lines his Scottish heritage has gone awry.”
"In a land where Donald Trump first stormed the national political stage a decade ago, few are eager for his return on Thursday, when he will arrive for his maiden voyage abroad as the presumptive Republican nominee."
"Rather than huddle with foreign dignitaries or address adoring masses, Trump will visit his golf courses. The businessman, who arrived here in 2006 to great fanfare and considerable political support, has since become a national bogeyman, his candidacy rattling Scots to the point that the country’s leaders now openly worry about the damage a Trump presidency could inflict on the United Kingdom’s most important alliance."
“As far as U.K.-U.S. relations are concerned, I think we’d have to build very strong allies in other parts of the administration and the U.S. Congress, because inevitably they would be strained,” Jeremy Purvis, a member of the U.K.’s House of Lords from southern Scotland, told POLITICO.
"Initially, Trump’s promise to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into a development in northern Scotland, a region anxious about its post-oil future, was welcomed by many. Since then, Trump’s attempts to evict his neighbors, his opposition to an offshore wind farm, and now his bombastic presidential campaign, have turned national opinion decidedly against him."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-scotland-224690#ixzz4CQtxBJda
The Scotts worry that Trump's possible Presidency could set back US-UK relations generations.
Those who think that somehow Trump's skill as a businessman make him the guy to fix the US economy maybe should consult Scotland and their experience.
Meanwhile, things have not worked out on the golf course.
"Jenna Johnson tells the story of Donald Trump’s troubled Scottish golf course, which he still somehow touts as evidence of his business acumen and international success:
"But to many people in Scotland, his course here has been a failure. Over the past decade, Trump has battled with homeowners, elbowed his way through the planning process, shattered relationships with elected leaders and sued the Scottish government. On top of that, he has yet to fulfill the lofty promises he made."
"Trump has also reported to Scottish authorities that he lost millions of dollars on the project — even as he claims on U.S. presidential disclosure forms that the course has been highly profitable."
"Trump’s original plan: a sprawling resort in the ancestral home of golf with two courses, a 450-room luxury hotel and spa, a conference center, employee housing, a turf-grass research center and a holiday community with hundreds of villas, condos and homes. The project would pump millions of dollars into the local economy and create 6,000 jobs — maybe even 7,000 jobs, Trump said at one news conference. Tourists would travel here from around the world, he promised, along with well-known celebrities such as Scottish actor Sean Connery."
"Today, the Trump International Golf Links near Aberdeen employs just 150 people and consists of one golf course that meanders through the sand dunes, a clubhouse with a restaurant and 19 rooms for rent in a renovated mansion and former carriage house. There is also a maintenance facility and a road running through the property. Lonely and desolate, the resort has attracted no major tournaments, and neighbors say the parking lot is rarely, if ever, full."
"That has kind of a familiar ring, doesn’t it?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/06/22/happy-hour-roundup-886/
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