Scotland cuts ties with Donald Trump. He says it should be ‘thanking me’ instead.

[jpak]

Source: Washington Post

LONDON -- An unrepentant Donald Trump responded Thursday to the backlash in the U.K. over his controversial statements on Muslims by saying that British politicians should be grateful that he has stated “what needed to be said.”

Writing in the Press and Journal, one of Scotland’s oldest newspapers, the leading U.S. Republican presidential candidate accused them of pandering to political correctness when instead they “should be thanking me.”

Trump has faced widespread outrage in the U.K. -- and indeed around the world -- over his calls for a complete ban on Muslims entering the United States. But while Trump has only doubled down since first making his incendiary remarks, he did appear to be put off by the reaction from Scotland.

On Wednesday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon dropped him as a business ambassador, revoking his membership in the GlobalScot business network. The Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen also stripped the billionaire developer of his honorary degree for statements it said were “wholly incompatible” with the values of the university.

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[TexasProgresive]

1. This is good but his rabid supporters don't care what other countries think.

[brislington]

3. Entirely agree, but just a bit - Trump does

Trump likes to pretend he is a Scot when it suits him, AFAIK from his mother's Hebrides ancestry? It's only a flea bite but I bet being rejected by his ancestors did bother him. He's been rejected by Scots before, with his wind farm protests, but this is more public and personal. Won't change anything but nice to know he got a sting.

Also, there is a very real campaign to have him banned from UK for hate speech. Cameron will probably duck it but it does embarrass the Tories, who have already had to denounce his remarks. They don't appreciate being put on the spot as kissing cousins of Republicans.

[TexasProgresive]

7. I had a laugh as I misread your last line as--

"As(s) kissing cousins of Republicans" I thought that was Blair and company.

[CTyankee]

21. this is nice. I am of Scots heritage and I love it that they might be pissed at Trump...

good on you, lads...

[yuiyoshida]

8. This

unfortunately

[Kingofalldems]

23. They now want to ban visitors from Scotland.

[Initech]

2. That's because Scotland is a bunch of stupid losers.

See if people want leadership and winning, they'll turn to me, Donald Trump. I don't need Scotland. I buy and sell entire countries like them before I eat breakfast in morning because I am very rich and very smart and I am good with money.

[Ghost Dog]

11. !

[Initech]

13. It's fun to impersonate Trump!

[PatSeg]

17. But its much too easy!

He has a vocabulary of about 50 words.

[Initech]

20. I think these are his most frequently used:

Let's see:

"Stupid"
"Losers"
"I'm"
"me"
"very"
"winning"
"America"
"smart"
"rich"

[forest444]

22. And, of course:

YOOGE!

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-do-trump-and-sanders-have-in-common-508860995748

[PatSeg]

24. Ha, ha!!!

And of course "Great"!

[Art_from_Ark]

29. Dr. Seuss's "Hop on Pop"

has a larger vocabulary than The Donald

[PatSeg]

34. And Dr. Seuss

makes more sense, not to mention he RHYMES!!!

[Art_from_Ark]

35. I think Dr.Seuss would have had a blast with Trump as a theme

Hop on Trump
Green Eggs and Trump
Trumple the Turtle
Horton Hears a Trump
How the Trump Stole Christmas
The Sneetches Meet Sylvester McMonkey McTrump

[PatSeg]

36. Oh yes, brilliant!!!

The stories would just write themselves! I can see the pictures in my head - Trumple the Turtle!!!

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. How could you have a president that is banned

All over the world??

Can this election get any weirder?

[PatSeg]

6. I've never seen anything like it

The rest of the world must think we've lost our minds.

[T_i_B]

9. That's pretty much the consensus view on old fartface here

[eggplant]

16. Yea, we only have ex-presidents like that.

(See Bush and/or Cheney with warrants for their arrest in some places for war crimes)

[PatSeg]

18. Now the world is

Preemptively banning our presidents.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Trump has golf courses in Scotland at risk

http://www.trumpgolfscotland.com/

Of course, guess who is front and center.

[yellowcanine]

10. The Scots are still pissed about Trump grandstanding on the windmills.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/11/donald-trump-loses-windfarm-scottish-golf-resort

But Trump knows the windmills are a bad idea because he is a "HUUUUGE expert on tourism"!

[asjr]

12. Trump knew the windmills would blow

the golf balls off the turf.

[DetlefK]

14. Let's ask a windmill-expert about your statement...

[asjr]

15. Hilarious!

[elias49]

19. Poor Donnie.

Rejected.

[OnionPatch]

25. So he made a few swanky places for his rich buddies to golf.

What a gift to humanity.

[DonCoquixote]

26. Side note

If trump wins, then Cameron will cozy up to him. This will oddly accelerate the call to have another vote on the Scotch separatists issue, especially if England wants to leave the EU and Scotland wishes to stay.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

27. My friends back in England agree with Trump

Some of them are saying they wish British politicians had the nerve to say what he said. I'm reading their comments on my FB page. Most of these people I've known for years and as far as I know they vote Labour.

[T_i_B]

28. Not my experience

Old Fartface's comments have come up in a number of conversations with different people. Even those who are sympathetic consider his proposal for banning all Muslim immigrants to be too extreme and completely unworkable.

Also, when the leader of the far right UK Independence Party think's you've gone too far then that's a clear sign that you've gone too far. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-says-donald-trumps-policy-of-banning-muslim-immigration-to-the-us-is-a-political-a6765431.html

Maybe if I still lived down in Essex I'd find a few Alf Garnett wannabe's who'd agree with old fartface?

Right about now, most people I talk to just want Hilary Clinton as the next US President. Very few people over here have any idea who Bernie Sanders is.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

33. These people are in the Luton area.

[LeftishBrit]

30. I don't think I know anyone who agrees with Trump...

Even people who are in general anti-immigration think he's going much too far.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

32. These people are in the Luton area.

[T_i_B]

31. Trump pulls out of golf course development in Argyll.....

......citing fears about the radical Mullah Kintyre!