'Property investment' is in, 'cannot' is out of Trump's dictionary

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US tycoon Donald Trump is the talk of the town in Scotland at the moment. There’s a sentence I never thought I’d say.

Mr Trump (cue immature giggle) is planning a £1 billion golf course on the Menie estate in Aberdeenshire and it’s causing all sorts of och-eys and other Scottish sounding grumbles. It’s not just your ordinary golf course though, it’s a full scale development of two golf courses, a 450-bed hotel, 950 holiday homes, a 400-staff accommodation block and 500 private and ‘affordable’ homes.

Confident Trump

The four-week consultation period on the development is now drawing to a close and Donald (Trump, not Duck) is said to be confident of an approval despite the concerns of local residents and environmental groups over the effect it will have on the area, which includes protected sand dunes.

The Menie estate has previously been kept away from developers but Trump’s resort is being seriously considered because the investment is set to create more than 1,000 jobs and generate £50m a year for the economy. In a massively unbiased and not at all over-the-top statement, his legal team said that not giving the go ahead would be a ‘tragedy’ for Scotland.

Donald’s Dictionary

Colin Boyd QC also said: “In my experience of my client, the word ‘cannot’ does not appear in his dictionary.” Really? What, never? “Mr Trump, you cannot run over all the fluffy bunny rabbits in the country and use them to line the pavements of your new development.”

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