The visit to the resort in the village of Balmedie, north of the oil city of Aberdeen, came at the end of a two-day trip to Scotland, Trump’s first global visit since he became the presumptive Republican nominee.
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The first sentence of an Associated Press election story Friday morning ever-so-neatly summed up the establishment’s horrified reaction, on both sides of the Atlantic, to the Brexit vote. “I think the European Union might break up before anybody thinks in terms of Scotland”.
If anyone still needed a reminder that the phrase “it can’t happen here” should be struck from the lexicon of 2016, Britain’s historic Brexit referendum provided one more dramatic piece of evidence. “They’re angry over people coming into the country and taking over, and nobody even knows who they are”. The popular revolt will have political and economic repercussions for decades to come, not least of which on this year’s already astonishing USA presidential election.
On Saturday morning, during a press conference in Aberdeen, Scotland, addressing the United Kingdom vote, Trump praised the nation for its decision.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said the Brexit vote showed people were exhausted of being dictated to by “unelected bureaucrats in Brussels”, and said there were parallels in the United States.
Arriving for the grand opening of his refurbished golf course in Scotland, Trump put it more bluntly.
Asking Muslims if they are, in fact, Muslim, is not a rigorous test, and if you just ban Muslims from “terror states”-whichever ones these are-that is equivalent to building a dam only part-way across the river”.
Dozens of Twitter users criticized Trump, including British pop star Lily Allen, television presenter Sue Perkins and comedian Peter Serafinowicz.
It was the same story after the rampage by a USA -born Muslim at an Orlando gay nightclub two weeks ago, when Trump’s swift, inflammatory and self-congratulatory response robbed him of a chance to dent the anti-terror policy advocated by Clinton and the Democratic Obama administration.
Instead, he barged into sensitive feelings between pro-EU Scotland and anti-E.U.
“There’s some significant differences”, Gingrich said. There are signs of it across Europe, just as there have been signs of it in the United States in recent campaign cycles.
In a statement, the Trump campaign said the information provided in the booklet is in-depth summary of the top 50 facts about Clinton’s record that were detailed by Trump in a major speech early this week in NY.
“I think a lot of it has to do with entitlement, and that they don’t want to be a part of supporting those members of the European Union that aren’t as strong as they are”, Johnson said. “I would limit specific terrorist countries and we know who those terrorist countries are”, he said. It is about anti-bureaucracy in Brussels.
Such comments shed light on the cynical electoral calculations of the Clinton campaign.
“I hope Americans are watching”, Trump said.
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After seven months, one would think this policy would be coherent, but it is about as far from coherence as possible.
