{"id":177452,"date":"2015-09-01T15:41:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=177452"},"modified":"2015-09-01T15:41:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:41:22","slug":"donald-trump-2nd-scottish-independence-referendum-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-2nd-scottish-independence-referendum-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: \u20182nd Scottish independence referendum would be crazy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Republican hopeful for the presidential race Donald Trump has waded into the debate over a second Scottish independence referendum, calling the idea \u2018crazy.\u2019<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201c<em>I don\u2019t know how they can do that \u2014 go through all that again. I\u2019ve never heard of a thing like that. It\u2019s crazy,<\/em>\u201d Trump, who owns a golf course in Scotland, told the Press and Journal newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>You would\u2019ve thought that Cameron, or whoever was planning it, would\u2019ve said \u2018We\u2019ll do this now, but if we win you can\u2019t do it for another 50 years.<\/em>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z2jtLrUXIIo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">Trump has a fraught relationship with Scotland despite his business interests there. In June the American tycoon clashed with the SNP\u2019s Alex Salmond over plans to build a windfarm off the coast of Trumps Aberdeenshire golf resort.<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump maintained he did not want to become mired in Scottish politics as his campaign to replace Barack Obama as US president continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I didn\u2019t want to get involved in it, but people asked me and I think Scotland is better being unified as opposed to being independent,<\/em>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I felt it gives it more strength, so it certainly seemed to me, but it\u2019s not my issue.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump compared his struggle with Aberdeen Council for planning permission for his golf course to his foray into politics, saying the experience would stand him in good stead.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ZyDckiOU_0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The plans were initially rejected by councilors, before being approved by MPs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>My whole life has been a life of winning. I\u2019ve won many, many battles over the years, and I\u2019ve lost very few,<\/em>\u201d he told the Press and Journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Everyone laughed at us in Aberdeen when I proposed it for that land. But not only did we get it \u2014 it\u2019s one of the great gems of Scotland now and it\u2019s going to get better and better and better. It\u2019s a landmark.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/313995-donald-trump-scotland-independence\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Republican hopeful for the presidential race Donald Trump has waded into the debate over a second Scottish independence referendum, calling the idea \u2018crazy.\u2019 \u201cI don\u2019t know how they can do that \u2014 go through all that again. I\u2019ve never heard of a thing like that. It\u2019s crazy,\u201d Trump, who owns a golf course in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-177452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}