You've Been Trumped

If you ever get to the States, give me a call.

Oh, thank you very much.

Breakfast ready, Gordon?

We've a problem. What?

The beach. Ben's beach. What's the problem?

The problem is it really is Ben's beach.

He owns the shoreline.

Four miles of it from the grass down to the low tide mark.

I found it in the parish records when I was checking out some title deeds.

Can he prove it? We can't steal the beach from him, Victor, it's his.

We'll have to buy it from him.

Donald Trump has arrived in Scotland to talk about his plans for what

he claims will be the world's greatest golf course...

While Donald Trump swept into the Northeast

on his usual wave of publicity,

his private jet touched down at Aberdeen airport

just after 10 o'clock this morning...

Earlier, environmental protestors have bought small plots of land

in a bid to block the controversial development.

Michael Forbes is of course the farmer

who refuses to sell to Trump...

It's my home. I've stayed here for 43 years now.

And he won't but murder it.

Mr. Trump said the development could still go ahead

without the farmers' land...

If we build a $300- or $400 million hotel,

I don't think you want the windows looking down into a slum.

Well, Donald Trump will be here for two days.

He says he'll be examining every square foot

to make sure his final designs are perfect.

I usually get up about seven and let the cat out.

And in these dark mornings I just nip back to bed again and turn on the TV.

And lie till about, say, half past seven, get ready, start my porridge...

Yes, that's for the hens.

Sometimes, I keep out,

if I'm going to have something with taties,

I keep out a couple for myself.

We have very good taties.

Just nearly there.

Twenty-four I used to count.

And a fox just nipped off the lot.

She's only asked a question about...

It's all talking on that station.

And the fox thinks there's people about.

Because they don't like people.

That's just lovely.

Old ladies.

And an egg.

How many do you get a day? Oh, well, sometimes two.

Sometimes one. Sometimes none.

I'm sure you know, guys. Be mindful of yourselves.

Don't rush forward with your gear, you'll get all the shots you want.

Mr. Trump will spend time with you afterwards as well.

If you spread out, guys, you'll get the best view.

Give my pipers a bit of space.

They've divided the marquee into two sections.

Posh section next door with, you know, fancy lace tablecloths and what have you,

and we're getting coffee and tea.

Hello everybody.

And everyone knows Martin Hawtree?

Huh? He's the architect of the site.

How are you? Nice to see you. Pleased to meet you.

I was born on the farm that I worked on during the war.

But I wasn't brought up on that farm, because my father was a lorry driver.

Well, he was actually a plowman in his younger day.

Here's a plowing match now. My father did plowing.

That's my father.

He was a prize plower, my father.

He has lots of cups and medals.

We used to go and watch them. I know my father's style of plowing.

See how he is. Look.

See, he's super bent.

This is where we lived.

That's the shop at Whitecairns, which is no more.

There's the Daniels buses.

Eyes are not as good as they used to be.

But I'll...

When I was here first, it was March we saw them.

And then last year it was February.

That's two there that used to come every year.

And we knew it was the same two, because of his long neck.

They're beautiful birds.

Miss Scotland. Come here a minute.

You won't be going to the Miss Universe pageant in, uh, and who's going?

Who's going? How do you rate her Yeah.

Do you think she's good? Yeah.

Yeah. Aw, I don't know her beauty.

Are you from this area?

Thank you.

There's so many familiar faces from the press,

they've really been amazing supporters of the project.

This is really a circle of our friends.

This was really a celebration of our friends.

A celebration of people that supported us.

It was spectacular for me yesterday to be able to walk

the final version of the course with my father.

To say, this is now what we're doing.

This is what will be etched into this land. Forever.

As old provost of the city, yesterday it was my pleasure

to welcome these two gentlemen...

We look at the plans you've got to produce this absolutely

outstanding golf course...

The excitement in this is absolutely,

outstandingly wonderful.

Any questions, gentlemen? TRUMP: Very nice questions.

Mr. Trump, what would you say to the many local residents here

who feel that you've run rough-shod over planning legislation

and environmental issues simply because you've got lots of money?

The, uh, that's a very interesting question because

honestly, this is a very popular project.

We've had great support from the council and great support from the political leaders.

We've saved the dunes, and from an environmental standpoint,

it's a much better situation than it was before we bought the site.

You can sometimes see the deer, you know, coming out of these trees

across there.

They jump the fence. No problem.

They're so beautiful.

I know they're wild, but they're not too scared.

You know. They just seem to put up with us.

Do you want me to face forward?

Watch this.

What was the first thing he said to you?

"Give this man a job," he says.

"Give this man a job." I go, "What job?"

Then he kept saying it. Three times he said it.

"Give this man a job." I said, "I got a bloody job.

"I don't want a job."

Keep this short, ladies and gentlemen, the rain's coming.

Give me an umbrella.

No, I'm just trying... See I happen to be a very truthful person.

His property is terribly maintained. It's slum-like. It's disgusting.

He's got stuff thrown all over the place. He lives like a pig.

And I did say that. And I'm an honest guy, and I speak honestly.

And I think that's why some people like me and some people probably don't like me.

But I think he'd do himself a great service if he fixed up his property.

And I'm not talking money. It's not a question of money.

It's a question of a little manual labor.

It explains it over on the shed. Just go look at that.

He's nought but a compulsive liar, that's for sure.

Mr. Trump, if you had a message for Michael Forbes this afternoon.

No, I haven't got one. What would it be?

I have no message.

I don't speak to him.

You quite enjoy it and feel that, in the end, you're sort of,

power and money will win out.

No, I don't view it as power and money.

I think that principle will win out.

But my people made deals with him, on two occasions.

My representatives have absolutely made two deals that he broke.

So he knows that. His people know that, whoever his people may be.

Nobody's complained about it up till now, huh?

He passed us this morning

and just flew on in his top-of-the-range Range Rover

with blacked-out windows.

Oh, I missed getting a super photo of him the first time he was ever out here.

The wind got him on the escarpment, and I thought the press would have loved that.

Could have sold that picture for a fortune. His hair was sticking out like that.

You know, the whole lacquered thing had come off, with it all wound round.

And was out to a point.

Damn it.

This is my husband's hat

aboard this boat.

He was chief petty officer on deck.

It's a bit dusty.

There he is. Look, under the red umbrella.

Where he is just now, which is just looking slightly to the right,

is where he was hoping to put in the club house.

And where he was going to put it in, it tends to flood,

because the water all runs down off the land into there, so...

Have difficulty putting a club house there unless it's on stilts.

My father, he sang songs that you never hear of today.

He used to sing a song, "You'll never miss the water till the well runs dry."

Which is a very true saying, isn't it?

It really shouldn't matter if the applicant is Mother Teresa of Calcutta

and she wants to carry out development in order to raise money to help the sick,

or, indeed, even if it's Donald Trump.

The permission isn't to the person, it's to the land.

And I'd now like to welcome a representative from the Green Party to the stage.

Local counselor, Martin Ford.

Thank you very much.

For those of you who don't know, in Aberdeenshire,

we have a council who gives Donald Trump everything he asks for

and can't make up their minds whether to throw people out

of their own homes to help him.

Firstly, I think it's important for people not from the Northeast of Scotland

to have some sense of the buildup.

In 2006, I think that was the first official state visit by Mr. Trump to Scotland.

His plan is for the Menie Estate at Balmedie, near Aberdeen.

On it he will create two golf courses,

a 450-bedroom hotel, and housing, as well as holiday apartments and golf villas.

An investment of a billion pounds.

Multimillion-pound golf resort in Aberdeenshire is rejected.

The chairman of a committee of Aberdeenshire councilors used his casting vote

after a three-hour meeting was deadlocked.

All the parties had committed themselves to sustainable development.

And you could apply the tests of sustainable development to the Trump proposal,

and it failed them.

It failed them in spades.

The Trump Organization has now confirmed

it will now pull out of Scotland