Trump Angers Scotland Ahead of Visit by Banning National Drink
The Daily Beast
May 10, 2018
EDINBURGH, Scotland -- Donald Trump might well be making diplomatic strides in North Korea, but he's risked destroying relations with Scotland ahead of his expected visit to the country by banning it's iconic soft drink, Irn-Bru.
The luminous drink - famously more popular in Scotland than Coca-Cola - has been banned from Trump's luxury golf course over fears that it's almost radioactively orange color could ruin the fancy carpets.
"We can't have it staining when to replace the ballroom carpet would be 500,000 pounds
($678,800) alone," said Trump Turnberry General Manager Ralph Porciani, according to a local newspaper.
Irn-Bru is an intensely sweet soft drink with a flavor that's almost impossible to describe.
It's as much a national icon as whiskey or haggis, and Trump's ban on it is being treated as an attack on the very essence of being Scottish, say a number of furious Scots.
One of the country's leading newspapers, "The Scotsman,' described the decision as
"an unfortunate stain on Trump's reputation" and in a justifiably angry editorial wrote,
"The resort may have ballroom carpets to protect but surely the stain on Trump's reputation from this ill-conceived decision is much, much worse."
More:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-anders-scotland-ahead-of-visit-by-banning-national-drink
[From The Daily Beast article]
Despite Trump's mother hailing from Scotland, he was widely unpopular in the country even before he became president..He has two golf courses here and was strongly criticized for the way he treated local residents while building his first, near Aberdeen in the north of the country.
In an eerie precursor to his later policies, he built a wall around a local resident's house to block it from view and sent the resident a bill, then cut off water from the 92-year-old resident's home, and has delivered only a fraction of the $1 billion investment and 6,000 jobs he promised to the area.
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When he congratulated them on their vote supporting Brexit. And of course he was dead wrong, Scotland uniformly opposed it. How can anyone in his position be so consistently clueless?? 
They are not the slightest bit impressed or afraid of him. I must say, I admire them very much after seeing this.
Trump is a Bawbag! 
Rhetorical question, I know.
It has almost as much potential of ruining the carpet as that drink does! 
I'd like the Rump to get some stuck in his hair and have to let someone yank really hard to get it out.
Or maybe he'd leave it in so his "hair" doesn't get blown by AF-1. 
