Trump vs farmer

**Colin** · 16th October 07, 09:15 AM

Send Trump's daughter to my place and I will try and negotiate a deal

Good for Mr. Forbes. Who needs more bloddy golf courses?

**David Dalglish** · 16th October 07, 11:17 AM

I love golf courses--they are a natural habitat for an array of wild life--Its a great game golf-difficult to master & a wonderful place to meet people. Not sure about Donald Trump though?

**gilmore** · 18th October 07, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by David Dalglish

I love golf courses--they are a natural habitat for an array of wild life--Its a great game golf-difficult to master & a wonderful place to meet people. Not sure about Donald Trump though?

Actually, golf courses are unnatural, a monoculture of only one species of plant---usually a not-native grass--- and as such do not support anywhere close to the array of wild life---both animal and plant--- that can live in natural habitats. They require constant maintenance with herbicides, which destroy plants in surrounding areas, and fertilizers, which also wash downstream, and feed algae and other pest plants that destroy and supplant plant and animal life in the lakes and streams there.

**Larry124** · 18th October 07, 06:46 PM

The story reached CNN News tonight.
But in the film clip Mr. Forbes is not wearing his kilt

**cesar** · 19th October 07, 12:50 AM

Hi
I lived in Scotalnd for a year in the town of Greenock. I am from France and I live now in Paris. I heard about the story watching CNN, and I really want to do something about it. The land Trump wants to buy is awesome, but this is why he shoudn't have it and that Forbes property is like a beacon against greed. I play golf myself and I hit off the tee in Greenock for the first time. Now building a private and select golf course along the fabulous shore north of Aberdeen is absolutely crap! As Gordon Legge put it 'playing golf will ruin a good walk'. And this piece of land should belong to nature and lovers not to corporate world and posh gentry.
cesar

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 2nd March 08, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by cesar

Hi
this piece of land should belong to nature and lovers not to corporate world and posh gentry.

Posh Gentry. Or, put another way, rich folks. Most of the comments on this thread have slammed Trump because he's got money, and by extension, pissed and moaned about rich folks and successful corporations. Well, I'm sorry if all of you aren't rich, or successful, or "posh"-- however you want to define that word. I take it to mean "well mannered and well bred", but you guys can (and probably will) attach whatever meaning you want to reinforce bigoted views about people with money.

This thread is supposed to be about "Kilts In The Media". Fine. That some fella in a kilt get his picture in the papers because he doesn't want to sell his land to one of Mr. Trump's companies is probably worth posting. But comments about Mr. Trump's haircut, and how "bad" he is, and generally bad mouthing the rich are, in my opinion mean spirited and petty minded.

So, as a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist, I hope Mr. Trump builds his golf course. Not because it will employ people, not because it will bring revenue into the area long after Green Peace shuts down the off-shore oil industry, but because it will annoy the hell out of all of those people who don't like the way Mr. Trump combs his hair, and who object to the fact that the rich (and the posh gentry) have more money than they do.

**gilmore** · 2nd March 08, 11:00 PM

You must not watch much US television. I don't either. Trump has a kind of reality/game show called "The Apprentice," and from reports on this and other appearances in the media seems to have a rather unpleasant and arrogant personality or public persona, which I suspect is the basis of much of the negative reaction to him in this thread. And in real life.

BTW my understanding of posh gentry is that it is not unusual that they consider themselves---and are also thought of by others---as quite a few steps above mere capitalists in social stature, having made their money the old-fashioned way: they inherited it.

**Coemgen** · 19th October 07, 11:30 AM

And I couldn't agree with you more.

**Roan Carter** · 19th October 07, 07:02 PM

I just shaved my head and gave up my hair after struggling with rapid, ridiculous balding from the age of 15 to 21.

Now I headbutt doors into splinters with my shiny chrome dome. ^_^ j/k

**Chef** · 21st November 07, 01:15 AM

Well I don't know how Trump's fight with the farmer is going but he just won preliminary approval from the local planning commission by a vote of 7 to 4. The Council takes it up next week.