If ole’ Donald thought his screwing with EVERYONE wasn’t gonna pop up in Scotland ?
He was fooling himself….
As President Trump kicked off a weekend of golfing in his late mother’s home country, hundreds of protesters rallied outside his resorts and in cities across Scotland — abseiling off a bridge, waving Palestinian flags and chanting for the U.S. president to be deported.
At a demonstration on Saturday outside the U.S. consulate in the capital Edinburgh, one protester held Scottish bagpipes in one arm, and a sign in the other. “At least this bag of hot air serves a purpose,” it read. Another waved a banner saying “Scotland is already great”— a riff off Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.
Protester Niamh Cunvin-Smith, 25, who traveled to the consulate protest from Inverness, asked, “Why on earth is this convicted felon allowed to come into our country and play golf when the people do not like him?”
Trump is a native son of Scotland, but most Scots don’t like him
One recent poll found 71% of people in Scotland have an unfavorable opinion of Trump, compared to 57% of people in the United Kingdom overall. (Scotland is one of four countries, along with England, Wales and Northern Ireland, that comprise the U.K.)
Trump was golfing Saturday at one of his resorts in Turnberry, about 100 miles from the U.S. consulate, which was closed all weekend.
Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, was born and raised on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides islands. Her first language was Scottish Gaelic. She left at age 18 for New York, where she married Trump’s father, had five children, and died in 2000.
Among the protesters gathered in Edinburgh was a distant relative of the American president, Janet MacLeod-Trotter, who held a sign that read “MacLeods against Trump.” She said Trump was “misusing his heritage.”
“A lot of Macleods are very upset with the way he’s conducting all sorts of international and national issues,” she said….
image…Demonstrators held signs criticizing President Trump on a range of issues, from his stances on immigration and Gaza, and his ties to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.CreditCredit…Robert Ormerod for The New York Times