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Somewhat higher stakes version of the Trump Aberdeen golf course: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-66933929 https://www.bbc.co

by pjc50 5mo ago

Somewhat higher stakes version of the Trump Aberdeen golf course: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-66933929 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-she... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Forbes_(farmer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Forbes_(farmer)

partial225 5mo ago
This led to the greatest trolling of an individual ever when they deliberately stuck a windfarm directly off the coast of his new golf course. He's spent a couple of decades spending countless millions in losing a bunch of court cases, and of course, to this day, constantly moans to anyone who will list about "windmills". As far as trolling goes, it's one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind.
- fooblaster 5mo ago
  unfortunately this trolling has caused trump to try to halt all large offshore wind projects in the United States in federal land grants. it's terrible.
  - thefz 5mo ago
    Yep absolutely this and not at all big oil money/interest.
    - Sharlin 5mo ago
      Why not both?
    - foobarian 5mo ago
      What would be doubly ironic is if the gold course windmill farm was sponsored by big oil.
- cosmicgadget 5mo ago
  On par with publicly embarrassing someone's birtherism at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. That blowback though.
amiga386 5mo ago
For the gory details, see 1. Donald Trump's Ego Trip - lessons for the new Scotland (2011) https://andywightman.scot/docs/trumpreport_v1a.pdf https://andywightman.scot/docs/trumpreport_v1a.pdf 2. You've Been Trumped (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr6efmndvps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr6efmndvps
thih9 5mo ago
Wow! I especially like this: > Scottish people formed a Tripping Up Trump Campaign to make it more difficult to transfer the title to the land, and hundreds of people bought small interests in Forbes' property and became co-owners. Continued in another article[1]: > When it emerged at the end of January 2011 that Queen guitarist Brian May had agreed to the use of the band's song "Bohemian Rhapsody" in a film highlighting the plight of the families, Trump appeared to deny in a media statement that there had ever been an eviction threat, declaring "we have no interest in compulsory purchase and have never applied for it." [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Links_Scotland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Links...

by pjc50 5mo ago

partial225 5mo ago

This led to the greatest trolling of an individual ever when they deliberately stuck a windfarm directly off the coast of his new golf course. He's spent a couple of decades spending countless millions in losing a bunch of court cases, and of course, to this day, constantly moans to anyone who will list about "windmills". As far as trolling goes, it's one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind.

fooblaster 5mo ago
unfortunately this trolling has caused trump to try to halt all large offshore wind projects in the United States in federal land grants. it's terrible.
- thefz 5mo ago
  Yep absolutely this and not at all big oil money/interest.
  - Sharlin 5mo ago
    Why not both?
  - foobarian 5mo ago
    What would be doubly ironic is if the gold course windmill farm was sponsored by big oil.
cosmicgadget 5mo ago
On par with publicly embarrassing someone's birtherism at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. That blowback though.

amiga386 5mo ago

For the gory details, see 1. Donald Trump's Ego Trip - lessons for the new Scotland (2011) https://andywightman.scot/docs/trumpreport_v1a.pdf https://andywightman.scot/docs/trumpreport_v1a.pdf 2. You've Been Trumped (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr6efmndvps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr6efmndvps

thih9 5mo ago

Wow! I especially like this: > Scottish people formed a Tripping Up Trump Campaign to make it more difficult to transfer the title to the land, and hundreds of people bought small interests in Forbes' property and became co-owners. Continued in another article[1]: > When it emerged at the end of January 2011 that Queen guitarist Brian May had agreed to the use of the band's song "Bohemian Rhapsody" in a film highlighting the plight of the families, Trump appeared to deny in a media statement that there had ever been an eviction threat, declaring "we have no interest in compulsory purchase and have never applied for it." [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Links_Scotland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Links...