BALMEDIE, Scotland — President-elect Donald J. Trump has already built a wall — not on the border with Mexico, but on the border of his exclusive golf course in northeastern Scotland, blocking the sea view of local residents who refused to sell their homes. And then he sent them the bill.
/ 57.45278°N 2.03611°W / 57.45278; -2.03611 Trump International Golf Links, Scotland is a golf course in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, owned by Donald Trump. It opened in 2012.
Before-and-after satellite images showing the destruction of sand dunes after Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire golf course was built on them. Before-and-after photos show the environmental damage caused by Donald Trump's Scottish golf course. Trump opened the course on a sand dune system in 2012 despite fierce local opposition.
As the film illustrated, the course, Trump International Golf Course, Aberdeen, created less than 200 jobs and left nearby residents — including a 90-year-old woman — without proper water supply for years.
Images taken of the course in April 2021 show how many of the sand dune features at the southern third of Foveran Links, where Trump's golf course was built, had been partially destroyed.
Officials announced in December 2020 that the coastal sand dunes Trump's the resort would lose their status as a protected environmental site because they had been partially destroyed.
James Dodson, a golf correspondent, has said that Eric Trump, Donald Trump's son and a director at both the Scottish resorts, told him in 2014 that the Trump Organization had " all the funding we need out of Russia ." Eric Trump has strenuously denied making the claim.
Insider has obtained before-and-after photos from the satellite technology firm Maxar, which show the dramatic destruction of the prized Foveran Links sand dunes between March 2010 and April 2021.
1. Turnberry – Ailsa Course – £350. Located on the coast of the outer Firth of Clyde in the south west of Scotland, The Ailsa course is the most famous of the Turnberry courses, owned by US President Donald Trump.
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The property was finally sold for $583,000 in an auction on July 31, 2014. The buyer was Carl Icahn, who held the debt on Trump Entertainment, owner of Trump Plaza.
The Open will not be returning to Donald Trump’s Turnberry “in the foreseeable future”, the R&A has announced. “We had no plans to stage any of our championships at Turnberry and will not do so in the foreseeable future,” said Slumbers.
The new 18-hole course will be known as MacLeod course after Mr Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who was born and brought up on the Hebridean island of Lewis before emigrating to New York. The course will be built to the south and west of the original one.
According to www.trumpgolfcount.com, Trump has played more rounds of golf as president than any other White House resident. He has visited his golf clubs 280 times during his presidency, playing on 140 occasions. Topics. Donald Trump.
Trump International Golf Links Scotland built a course on the Menie estate, north of Aberdeen, in 2012, and its construction has been blamed for badly damaging the spectacular dunes system at nearby Foveran Links, an official site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
Trump originally won approval for his “Trump estate” encompassing the protected dunes because he pledged to create up to 6,000 jobs by building a five-star hotel with 450 rooms, shops, a sports complex, timeshare flats, two golf courses and housing estates.
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From their kitchen window, John and Susan Munro used to have a view of the Scottish coastline, until it was blocked by an earthen berm built by Mr. Trump’s people.
David and Moira Milne had already been threatened with legal action by Mr. Trump’s lawyers, who claimed that a corner of their garage belonged to him, when they came home from work one day to find his staff building a fence around their garden. Two rows of grown trees went up next, blocking the view.
Mr. Salmond said that Mr. Trump’s impact on business in Scotland might actually be a net negative because his xenophobic comments have appalled the Scottish establishment so much that the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, known simply as the R&A, is unlikely to award his other Scottish golf course, the world-renowned Trump Turnberry, another prestigious golf tournament like the Open anytime soon.
Credit Credit... BALMEDIE, Scotland — President-elect Donald J. Trump has already built a wall — not on the border with Mexico, but on the border of his exclusive golf course in northeastern Scotland, blocking the sea view of local residents who refused to sell their homes. And then he sent them the bill.
In fifteen years, he bought twelve golf courses (ten in the U.S., one in Ireland, and a smaller one in Scotland), several homes, and a winery and estate in Virginia, and he paid for his forty-million-dollar share of the cost of building the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C.—a property leased to Trump by the U.S. government.
Instead, Trump turned to a new source of other people’s money. He did a series of deals in Toronto, Panama, the Dominican Republic, Azerbaijan, and Georgia with businesspeople from the former Soviet Union who were unlikely to pass any sort of rigorous due-diligence review by pension funds and other institutional investors. (Just this week, the Financial Times published a remarkably deep dive into the questionable financing of Trump’s Toronto property.) He also made deals in India, Indonesia, and Vancouver, Canada, with figures who have been convicted or investigated for criminal wrongdoing and abuse of political power.
No doubt, the President will be excited to visit. After buying the property for more than sixty million dollars, he then spent a reported hundred and fifty million pounds—about two hundred million dollars total—remaking the site, adding a new course, rehabbing an old one, and fixing up the lodgings. It is possible, though, that he will have some harsh words for his staff. The Turnberry has been losing an astonishing amount of money, including twenty-three million dollars in 2016. The Trump Organization argued that these losses were the result of being closed for several months for repair. However, revenue for the months it was open were so low—about $1.5 million per month—that it is hard to understand how the property will ever become profitable, let alone so successful that it will pay back nearly three hundred million dollars in investment and losses.
The Turnberry has been losing an astonishing amount of money, including twenty-three million dollars in 2016. The Trump Organization argued that these losses were the result of being closed for several months for repair.
In the nine years before he ran for President, the Post reported, the Trump Organization spent more than four hundred million dollars in cash on new properties—including fourteen transactions paid in full. In fifteen years, he bought twelve golf courses (ten in the U.S., one in Ireland, and a smaller one in Scotland), several homes, ...
President Trump will spend the weekend playing golf at his newest and most financially confounding major project. The President has refused to release his tax returns or to provide anything other than the barest minimum of required financial disclosure. His business is an odd one, hurtling from real-estate development to casinos to licensing to golf to roadside motels, with no obvious logic. We know far too little about how he has made and spent his money, and much of what we do know is troubling. There are countless ways for a President, his family, his Cabinet, and his associates to profit from the Presidency. There are also realistic fears about past business partners using their knowledge to unduly influence the President and his policies. Congress has the power to uncover much of what we would want to know, but is declining to do so. We still don’t know if the Mueller investigation will focus on questionable transactions that don’t clearly and directly involve Russian influence during the campaign. In short, it is up to us, citizens and journalists, to do what we can to unravel the financial entanglements of the President, to make sense of the seemingly insensible.
Branded The Trump Estate, the plans feature cottages, shops, food outlets and million-dollar homes. The new 18-hole course will also be named MacLeod, in honor of Trump's mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who was raised on the Scottish island of Lewis.
Trump himself previously derided Forbes as living in a "pigsty" and called him "an embarrassment to Scotland."
Trump International, the documentary claims, also cut off the family's water supply — for five years. (The company has called those claims “defamatory” and “untrue.”)
Aside from a boutique hotel with 21 rooms, neither the promised luxury hotel nor any of the 1,500 homes have so far been built.
Trump, Forbes says, "was only interested in himself. He's just a selfish, spoiled brat."
Trump International has insisted it "never, and would never , conduct the type of activity claimed"
Since Trump became president, his company's involvement in Aberdeenshire has changed, locals say — for now, at least.
A judge will decide whether there should be an investigation into how Donald Trump came to purchase a luxury golf course in Scotland using $60 million in cash under circumstances that critics have described as suspicious.
Avaaz said Trump's 2014 purchase of Turnberry was suspicious because he had much of spent his career funding his expansive property with the use of huge loans before paying $60 million in cash for the Scottish golf resort.
James Dodson, a golf journalist, previously said Eric Trump, a director of Turnberry, told him in 2014 that the Trump Organization had " all the funding we need out of Russia ," a claim Eric Trump has dismissed as " completely fabricated ."