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Update re: TRUMP Promotes His Scottish Golf Course >His Golf Resorts are BROKE

Trump Boasts About His Controversial Scottish Golf Course, Even Though it Loses $1 million a Year and Many Locals Despise It

The Guardian UK / Business Insider, 3 MAR 2019.





PA via Getty Images

  • Donald Trump on Saturday posted glowing praise for the Trump International Golf Links, Scotland.
  • The golf course routinely posts losses in excess of $1 million per year, a review of accounts by Business Insider found.
  • The course has enraged many locals, who have waged long-standing battles with Trump and his staff.
  • Large promises made by Trump that the course would turbocharge the local economy also remain unfulfilled....


Trump boasted on Saturday about his golf course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, which he characterised as "perhaps the greatest" on earth, and an asset to US diplomacy.

However, his praise glossed over the controversial history of the Trump International Golf Links, Scotland.

The course has aroused pitched opposition from locals for years, and consistently posts annual financial losses in excess of $1 million.

The President's Saturday tweet said: "Very proud of perhaps the greatest golf course anywhere in the world. Also, furthers U.K. relationship!"

The tweet quoted a post from The Trump Organization, which in turn quoted Dr Martin Hawtree, who said "The landscape framework of @TrumpScotland comes close to an ideal. There is nothing missing & there are no weak holes."

Hawtree is a golf course architect whom Trump hired to design the Aberdeenshire course, and in the quotation he is effectively praising his own work.

Regardless of the quality of the golf course, it does not make any money.


A review by Business Insider of the accounts for Trump International Golf Club Scotland Limited, which runs the course, found loses of between $1 million and $2.4 million for every year since it opened in 2012.

Here are The Results:

2017: $1,393,572 loss (£1,054,935)
2016: $1,545,934 loss (£1,170,273)
2015: $1,077,255 loss (£815,483)
2014: $1,050,260 loss (£795,048)
2013: $2,407,629 loss (£1,822,577)
2012: $2,311,283 loss (£1,749,643)



The course has also aroused significant local opposition.


The Milne family, who live on a pocket of land inside the course which they refuse to sell, have spent years battling Trump, whose staff have threatened them with legal action.




Nearby, Michael Forbes, a farmer who rejected offers from Trump to sell his land, painted the words "NO GOLF COURSE" in large letters on a shed in a show of defiance.


In 2016, The New York Times reported that Trump staff had built a fence along the border between their properties then sent them a bill, an apparent echo of Trump's strategy for a border wall with Mexico.

Milne threw the bill in the trash, and often flies a Mexican flag from his home in solidarity.


An extensive BBC report details Trump's struggles with Aberdeenshire locals and the authorities in Scotland, including the country's natural heritage organisation, which says the course development wrecked a rare and pristine sand dune habitat.

It adds that some business leaders in the local area have praised Trump's investments, but concludes that his promises of a tide of investment cash and thousands of jobs to the area are "far from fulfilled."


MORE;...

Ethics Watchdogs Decry Tweet Boosting Trump International

Trump is a National Security Risk

A tweet in which Donald Trump extolled the virtues of his golf course near Aberdeen was “shameless, corrupt and repugnant”, a leading US ethics expert said.

The president sent the tweet in the early hours of Saturday.

He later went on to deliver a rambling, controversial and sometimes obscene speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, near Washington.

“Very proud of perhaps the greatest golf course anywhere in the world,” Trump wrote, embedding a Trump Organization tweet in praise of Trump International Scotland, the Aberdeenshire course he opened in 2012. “Also, furthers UK relationship!”


In response Walter Shaub, a former head of the independent US Office of Government Ethics, wrote:

“This is Trump’s most explicit commingling of personal interests and public office to date. This is the tone from the top that leads his appointees to violate ethics rules. This is shameless, corrupt and repugnant presidential profiteering. This is an invitation to graft.”

Shaub, who was appointed to the ethics role under Barack Obama before resigning under Trump, is a regular and fierce critic of the president.


Trump nominally handed control of his business to his sons when he entered the White House. Nonetheless, he has been widely accused of violating the clauses of the US constitution designed to stop presidents profiting from the office.


On Saturday, the watchdog Citizens for Ethics, which Shaub advises and which is suing Trump over such issues, tweeted:

“There it is. The president is using an official statement as an ad for his business and making sure everyone knows he ties his business to US relationships with foreign countries.”


Trump owns two courses in Scotland, the other being Turnberry in Ayrshire, which he bought in 2014 and at which he played during a visit to Britain last summer that prompted widespread protests, not least across Scotland.

The investments have been expensive and controversial.

Recently, a proposal to build 550 luxury villas at the Aberdeenshire course was delayed, having been the subject of a record number of complaints.


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Donald Trump Interview in 2011 on His Scottish Golf Course


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