On the roof of his waterfront home in north-east Scotland, David Milne holds a Mexican flag and looks at a luxurious golf palace owned by Donald Trump.
Milne has been an opponent of major progression since the President of the United States began building the Trump International Golf Links near the town of Balmedie in 2006.
But now it scratches its head with disbelief that Aberdeenshire City Council has given the go-ahead for a moment along the sand dunes a few miles away.
“There is no justification for this golf course,” AFP said.
David Milne, seen on a hill above Donald Trump’s International Golf Links field clubhouse on Scotland’s east coast, is dismayed that the council has given the green for a moment the photo field: AFP / Michal Wachucik
“The first course here is to lose money. He’s never made a profit since he opened his doors. He hasn’t done anything in this area yet.
“Then why build a moment one and destroy more landscape?”
Milne said the surrounding countryside and coastal roads were once visited by a multitude of tourists and birdwatchers.
But walking through the winds whipped beach dunes is almost now, as the countryside has been blocked by a steel fence.
David Milne erected a Mexican flag with a Scottish flag in 2016 “as a sign of respect and solidarity with the Mexican people” after Trump promised to build a border wall, which will dismantle him if he loses his candidacy for re-election. Photo: AFP / Michal Wachucik
Trump International Golf Links is one of 3 golf resorts that the American tycoon-turned-politician and his circle of relatives own in Europe.
One is in Ireland, while the other two, Turnberry and Trump International, are in Scotland, the ancestral home of their mother, Mary, in the northwest of the Isle of Lewis.
Trump bought the 1,400 acres (567 hectares) of land north of the city of Aberdeen in 2006 and, with a unique taste, pledged to build “the world’s golf course. “
He promised to create 6 billion jobs and 1 billion euros ($1. 3 billion, 1. 1 billion euros).
Trump, who saw a golf course bet at his trump Turnberry luxury hotel in July 2018, allegedly made Milne an offering of money, jewelry and a golf club for his home, but rejected photo: AFP/ANDY BUCHANAN
Ties opened in 2012, in October last year, Trump International Golf Club Scotland reported a loss of 1. 07 million euros for 2018 after a loss of 1. 25 million euros in 2017.
Both formations contracted around 650 transients and permanents in 2018.
Milne says Trump presented him with $260,000 and a golf club for his home, built on about a fifth of acre of land bordering the course.
But he refused. In retaliation, a row of trees were planted in front of his house, then a fence was built and Trump sent him the $3,500 bill, he added.
“The Mexican flag was first pinned when I heard Donald Trump talk about the wall on the Mexican border and make Mexicans pay,” he said.
Donald Trump, while campaigning for the GOP nomination, visited his address north of Aberdeen in June 2016; upon arrival at Glasgow Prestwick airport, he serenaded through a mariachis parody organization Photo: AFP / Michal Wachucik
“I touched the fiber because I had tried this before, right here in this place. “
In a sand dune where the structure of Trump’s new course has been given the green light, the Democratic and Green group councillor, Paul Johnston, is as bewildered as Milne.
“First we will have to prove each other’s good fortune and it is not exactly a good fortune,” said Johnston, who opposed the plans for environmental reasons.
“Far from that. That’s a loss every year. A lot of people here probably feel deceived by this total fiasco. “
However, all are opposed.
Stewart Spence, the 70-year-old owner of the five-star Marcliffe hotel in Aberdeen, a 30-minute drive from Balmedie, said Trump’s investment had paid off locally.
“The turnover he has brought to the region is huge,” he said.
“The spin-off for restaurants, chauffeured drivers and everything else. People will come and stay for two or three nights.
“You can eat one night at my hotel and in the evenings you can eat in the restaurant. “
Trump visited Scotland before his shocking victory in the 2016 presidential election, and received a serenade upon his arrival at Glasgow Prestwick Airport through a Mariachi organization, “John Direction. “
The musicians were armed with a full brick wheelbarrow for their border wall.
Trump’s four chaotic years as president have wreaked havoc on his wary political parties in the United States, where it’s a momentary mandate in next week’s election.
In Scotland, Milne how they feel.
He said he promised a lifetime source of Mexican flags of friends he had won by refusing to move.
“I carried the flag in a sign of respect and with the Mexican people,” he said in a trembling voice of emotion.
“I will fly the flag as long as Donald Trump is president. If I lost the election, the flag would fall.
“This is a mirror image of the Mexican people. It’s just no longer necessary. They won. “