You've Been Trumped (2011) - full transcript

In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on celebrity tycoon Donald Trump as he buys up one of Scotland's last wilderness areas to build a golf resort.

If you ever get to the
States, give me a call.

Oh, thank you very much.

Breakfast ready, Gordon?

We've a problem. What?

The beach. Ben's beach.
What's the problem?

The problem is it
really is Ben's beach.

He owns the shoreline.

Four miles of it from the grass
down to the low tide mark.

I found it in the parish records when
I was checking out some title deeds.

Can he prove it? We can't steal the
beach from him, Victor, it's his.

We'll have to buy it from him.



MALE REPORTER: Donald Trump has arrived in
Scotland to talk about his plans for what

he claims will be the world's
greatest golf course...

FEMALE REPORTER: While Donald
Trump swept into the Northeast

on his usual wave of publicity,

his private jet touched
down at Aberdeen airport

just after 10 o'clock
this morning...

MALE REPORTER 2: Earlier, environmental
protestors have bought small plots of land

in a bid to block the
controversial development.

FEMALE REPORTER: Michael
Forbes is of course the farmer

who refuses to sell to Trump...

It's my home. I've stayed
here for 43 years now.

And he won't but murder it.

FEMALE REPORTER: Mr. Trump said the
development could still go ahead

without the farmers' land...



TRUMP: If we build a $300-
or $400 million hotel,

I don't think you want the windows
looking down into a slum.

FEMALE REPORTER: Well, Donald
Trump will be here for two days.

He says he'll be examining
every square foot

to make sure his final
designs are perfect.

MOLLY: I usually get up about
seven and let the cat out.

And in these dark mornings I just nip
back to bed again and turn on the TV.

And lie till about, say, half past
seven, get ready, start my porridge...

Yes, that's for the hens.

Sometimes, I keep out,

if I'm going to have
something with taties,

I keep out a couple for myself.

We have very good taties.

Just nearly there.

Twenty-four I used to count.

And a fox just
nipped off the lot.

MAN ON RADIO: She's only
asked a question about...

It's all talking
on that station.

And the fox thinks
there's people about.

Because they don't like people.

That's just lovely.

Old ladies.

And an egg.

ANTHONY: How many do you get a day?
Oh, well, sometimes two.

Sometimes one. Sometimes none.

MEDIATOR: I'm sure you know, guys.
Be mindful of yourselves.

Don't rush forward with your gear,
you'll get all the shots you want.

Mr. Trump will spend time
with you afterwards as well.

If you spread out, guys,
you'll get the best view.

Give my pipers a bit of space.

They've divided the marquee
into two sections.

Posh section next door with, you know,
fancy lace tablecloths and what have you,

and we're getting
coffee and tea.

Hello everybody.

And everyone knows
Martin Hawtree?

Huh? He's the architect
of the site.

How are you? Nice to see you.
Pleased to meet you.

I was born on the farm that
I worked on during the war.

But I wasn't brought up on that farm,
because my father was a lorry driver.

Well, he was actually a
plowman in his younger day.

Here's a plowing match now.
My father did plowing.

That's my father.

He was a prize
plower, my father.

He has lots of cups and medals.

We used to go and watch them. I
know my father's style of plowing.

See how he is. Look.

See, he's super bent.

This is where we lived.

That's the shop at
Whitecairns, which is no more.

There's the Daniels buses.

Eyes are not as good
as they used to be.

But I'll...

When I was here first, it
was March we saw them.

And then last year
it was February.

That's two there that
used to come every year.

And we knew it was the same
two, because of his long neck.

They're beautiful birds.

Miss Scotland. Come
here a minute.

You won't be going to the Miss Universe
pageant in, uh, and who's going?

Who's going? How do
you rate her Yeah.

TRUMP: Do you think she's good?
Yeah.

Yeah. Aw, I don't
know her beauty.

Are you from this area?

Thank you.

TRUMP JR: There's so many
familiar faces from the press,

they've really been amazing
supporters of the project.

This is really a
circle of our friends.

This was really a
celebration of our friends.

A celebration of people
that supported us.

It was spectacular for me
yesterday to be able to walk

the final version of the
course with my father.

To say, this is now
what we're doing.

This is what will be etched
into this land. Forever.

As old provost of the city,
yesterday it was my pleasure

to welcome these
two gentlemen...

We look at the plans you've got
to produce this absolutely

outstanding golf course...

The excitement in
this is absolutely,

outstandingly wonderful.

MEDIATOR: Any questions, gentlemen?
TRUMP: Very nice questions.

REPORTER: Mr. Trump, what would you
say to the many local residents here

who feel that you've run rough-shod
over planning legislation

and environmental issues simply
because you've got lots of money?

The, uh, that's a very
interesting question because

honestly, this is a
very popular project.

We've had great support
from the council and

great support from the
political leaders.

We've saved the dunes, and from
an environmental standpoint,

it's a much better situation than
it was before we bought the site.

You can sometimes see the deer, you
know, coming out of these trees

across there.

They jump the fence. No problem.

They're so beautiful.

I know they're wild, but
they're not too scared.

You know. They just
seem to put up with us.

Do you want me to face forward?

Watch this.

ANTHONY: What was the first
thing he said to you?

"Give this man a job," he says.

"Give this man a job."
I go, "What job?"

Then he kept saying it.
Three times he said it.

"Give this man a job." I
said, "I got a bloody job.

"I don't want a job."

MEDIATOR: Keep this short, ladies
and gentlemen, the rain's coming.

Give me an umbrella.

No, I'm just trying... See I happen
to be a very truthful person.

His property is terribly maintained.
It's slum-like. It's disgusting.

He's got stuff thrown all over the place.
He lives like a pig.

And I did say that. And I'm an
honest guy, and I speak honestly.

And I think that's why some people like me
and some people probably don't like me.

But I think he'd do himself a great
service if he fixed up his property.

And I'm not talking money.
It's not a question of money.

It's a question of a
little manual labor.

It explains it over on the shed.
Just go look at that.

He's nought but a compulsive
liar, that's for sure.

ANTHONY: Mr. Trump, if you had a message
for Michael Forbes this afternoon.

No, I haven't got one.
What would it be?

I have no message.

I don't speak to him.

RICHARD: You quite enjoy it and feel
that, in the end, you're sort of,

power and money will win out.

No, I don't view it
as power and money.

I think that principle
will win out.

But my people made deals
with him, on two occasions.

My representatives have absolutely
made two deals that he broke.

So he knows that. His people know
that, whoever his people may be.

Nobody's complained about
it up till now, huh?

He passed us this morning

and just flew on in his
top-of-the-range Range Rover

with blacked-out windows.

Oh, I missed getting a super photo of him
the first time he was ever out here.

The wind got him on the escarpment, and I
thought the press would have loved that.

Could have sold that picture for a fortune.
His hair was sticking out like that.

You know, the whole lacquered thing had
come off, with it all wound round.

And was out to a point.

Damn it.

This is my husband's hat

aboard this boat.

He was chief petty
officer on deck.

It's a bit dusty.

There he is. Look, under
the red umbrella.

Where he is just now, which is just
looking slightly to the right,

is where he was hoping to
put in the club house.

And where he was going to put
it in, it tends to flood,

because the water all runs down
off the land into there, so...

Have difficulty putting a club
house there unless it's on stilts.

MOLLY: My father, he sang songs
that you never hear of today.

He used to sing a song, "You'll never
miss the water till the well runs dry."

Which is a very true
saying, isn't it?

FORD: It really shouldn't matter if the
applicant is Mother Teresa of Calcutta

and she wants to carry out development in
order to raise money to help the sick,

or, indeed, even if
it's Donald Trump.

The permission isn't to the
person, it's to the land.

MC: And I'd now like to
welcome a representative

from the Green Party
to the stage.

Local counselor, Martin Ford.

Thank you very much.

For those of you who don't
know, in Aberdeenshire,

we have a council who gives Donald
Trump everything he asks for

and can't make up their minds
whether to throw people out

of their own homes to help him.

Firstly, I think it's important for
people not from the Northeast of Scotland

to have some sense
of the buildup.

In 2006, I think that
was the first official

state visit by Mr.
Trump to Scotland.

MALE TV REPORTER: His plan is for the
Menie Estate at Balmedie, near Aberdeen.

On it he will create
two golf courses,

a 450-bedroom hotel, and housing, as well
as holiday apartments and golf villas.

An investment of a
billion pounds.

FEMALE TV REPORTER: Multimillion-pound
golf resort in Aberdeenshire is rejected.

The chairman of a committee
of Aberdeenshire

councilors used his casting vote

after a three-hour
meeting was deadlocked.

All the parties had committed
themselves to sustainable development.

And you could apply the
tests of sustainable

development to the
Trump proposal,

and it failed them.

It failed them in spades.

FEMALE TV REPORTER: The Trump
Organization has now confirmed

it will now pull out of Scotland

after a bitter
rejection at Balmedie.

We are very disappointed.

Ultimately, we can go and develop
the project somewhere else.

We'll be fine.

I think it's the people
of Aberdeen and the shire

that were really let down
by their council today.

FORD: It was predicated
on long-distance tourism.

It was predicated on people flying across
the Atlantic to play a few games of golf

and flying back
across the Atlantic.

It was predicated on
utilizing a irreplaceable

and diminishing resource of
effectively natural habitat.

FEMALE TV REPORTER: Mr. Trump also
reiterated his concern about a proposal to

to build an offshore wind
farm close to his site.

TRUMP: When I look
out onto the ocean

from the 18th hole of Trump
International Golf Links,

to be honest with you,

I want to see the ocean, I
don't want to see windmills.

Good evening. There is
renewed hope tonight

that American tycoon
Donald Trump's plans

for a one-billion-pounds golf
development in Aberdeenshire,

will go ahead.

In a dramatic twist, the Scottish
government have called in

the controversial planning
application, taking

it out of Aberdeenshire
council's hands.

Never before has an application
been called in, in this manner.

FORD: By calling in an application
that had already been refused,

it's inescapable that the government
has, in some way, expressed a view that

it does not want the
application refused.

MALE TV REPORTER: Today,
almost two years on from

when he first announced
his proposals,

the Scottish government have given
the tycoon the green light.

Well, I think the message would be, I'm
going to build for the people of Scotland

the greatest golf course anywhere in the
world. There'll be nothing like it.

And it's going to be done
environmentally perfect.

The Menie Estate is in the constituency
of First Minister Alex Salmond.

The balance of opinion
among people in the

Northeast of Scotland
among my constituents

is very strongly in favor.

And that's because we can see the
social and economic benefits.

I mean, 6,000 jobs
across Scotland,

1,400 local and permanent jobs
here in the Northeast of Scotland,

that's a very powerful argument.

And I think that outweighs
the environmental concerns.

There's not many people looking
to invest a billion pounds

in this local economy.

It's right in keeping with
our development strategy

that inward-bound tourism is
key for the city and shire.

That's what we're
here to support.

And in partnership with Mr. Trump,
I believe we can do that together.

I thought it was the biggest thing
that had happened in the Northeast

since oil was discovered.

No, No, CPO!

You will be the next to go!

FORD: Early in 2009,

Mr. Trump's legal people approached
the council with suggestions

as to how they might justify to councilors
the use of compulsory purchase.

FEMALE TV REPORTER: The
Trump Organization

have asked the council
to consider using CPOs

and councilors decided
it was inappropriate

to reject the use of compulsory
purchase orders without a full report.

All it does is leaves a big cloud
over our heads. That's all it does.

Disappointment mixed with
fury, to be quite honest.

This is an action of people with
no conscience and no willpower.

This is typical of the
sort of thing that we get.

Oh, it's very typical. It's very
typical for councilors like yourself

to defer decisions that are
critical to people's livelihoods.

And you've failed.
You've failed!

TRUMP JR: I'm thrilled
with the outcome.

They continue to diminish
the importance and

nonsensical motions put forth by Mr.
Ford,

and hopefully this will be the last
few minutes of his political career,

because I think he's blown virtually
everything he's ever touched.

FORD: Since that time, the residents
at Menie, in their own homes,

have been living with the
threat of possibility

that they would be forced to
leave them against their will.

Just bang on the window.

Jesus, how do you do business with
someone who doesn't have a door?

I look at his place,
and it's a pig sty.

Do I regret that? No, I don't
regret it, it's a pig sty.

Turns out, actually we've got a collection
of remarkable, principled people

who have recognized what's
right and what's wrong,

and have said they're
not standing for wrong.

Ben.

What we wanted to ask you

have you ever thought
about moving?

Eh, no. You see, the thing is,

I'm still working the place myself.
It's my living.

FORBES: All my relations have been
salmon fishing all their lives.

My great-grandfather, my grandfather,
my father, all my uncles,

were all salmon fishers.

And, it's just in the blood, you know?
You just have to do it.

I was fourteen-and-a-half, I
went out to fish for my uncle.

And I left school.

I worked with him for a few years.
Then I went trawling.

Everybody knew everybody. You know? All
the salmon fishers knew everybody.

It's great.

It was cotton nets back then. They rotted
quick so they had to make a lot of nets.

These new ones, they're made of plastic.
Polythene.

They'll last a lot longer and
they're lighter. You know?

So you needed a full crew
to work the old nets.

This boat, this size here, you'd
have needed probably six men

to pull one of these nets up.
Now you can do it with two.

Well, I still am.
Still am fishing.

Haven't done it for these
last couple of years,

because I have a
bother with my back,

but I will get going
again next year.

I have to tow my boat
down to the beach.

It's not like here you come out of a
harbor. I have to launch it off the beach.

And, well, I have
nets on the beach.

Stake nets, you know?

And I'll be towing anchors
through his golf course as well,

because that's how we do it.

We just tow the anchors, we don't lift
'em out with trailers and things.

I'm looking forward to it.

A lot of local people don't see
Michael as a particular problem.

They see him as someone who is standing
up for what is rightfully his.

And they don't believe
all the clap-trap that

Trump's PR machine put out
about a hard-nosed farmer.

You know, he's standing
up for what's his.

Why shouldn't he?

Why wouldn't he? You know?

This is actually zoned
for the housing.

On the crest of that hill, between
David Milne's property there,

is going to be the eight-story
blocks of time-share apartments.

My house, originally a coastguard
station, built in 1954.

But there's been a station here
since about 1860-something.

There's a row of five
cottages here to my right.

They are coastguard cottages.

The occupants were originally
workers in the coastguard.

So, if when you look
at the drawings,

you see something that looks
like a crashed space shuttle,

that's the hotel,

and where my home is, is
meant to be a car park.

The buildings that you see just
a little farther over there,

the other side of
the green field,

that's Mike Forbes' place.

Again, under threat of
compulsory purchase.

Down below here,
this white building,

that's the home of
the Munro family.

Again, under compulsory
purchase threat.

"No compulsory purchase, no more Trump
lies" on the top of the postcard.

"The house down the road"

"to the dunes, where once
you could roam free."

MUNRO: I've been here a long time.
Near on three decades,

that's a long time. Most of my adult
life's been spent in this house.

Brought my family up here.
Finlay was born here.

Here he is, here's Beth.
Hi Bets.

And then this man, this
foreigner comes in,

because he's got a few pounds,
they reckon, in his pocket,

a bit of a name,

and we're just cast
aside, we're in the way.

I think it's an awful
way to treat people.

That was just when we moved
here, I was expecting Finlay.

He was, as I say, born here.

As you can see, the difference
from a few years...

This was taken in
excess of 25 years ago.

Me with the children,
and my mother,

paddling. Oh, it
was just glorious.

You realize what you've got and
what's going to be taken away.

FOOTE: Are you going
to Cruden Bay?

Maybe I should take a
cruise up in the old Zodi.

Well, I'd just left
art college in 1974.

I moved to London, and it's where
I continued my relationship

with, at that time, John Mellor,

who most people know
as Joe Strummer.

Having extricated myself
from the music industry,

I chanced to meet
Kim, my partner.

It must have been worse yesterday, 'cause
the winds were terrific yesterday.

It's a bit rough
today, isn't it?

So you're taking her
out of the water then?

I used to come up here with my
grandmother and my aunt and my cousins,

on the bus from Aberdeen
in the mid '50s

with our bandy catchers and
play commandos on those dunes.

It was a fantastic open
space within reach

of ordinary people
from Aberdeen.

And the only wild stretch

has been swallowed up
by this development.

Now that is primarily
which drives me

to say it shouldn't happen.

It's a real mosaic of habitats,
you've got everything

from open sand to shrubs,
to trees to wetlands.

A greener Scotland is
effectively a myth

if something like this
is allowed to happen

and lots of areas are either destroyed,
moved around, sanitized, disturbed,

and they'll be a few bits
left, scattered around,

as a kind of mitigation
of this development.

This very damaging two
golf course development,

and the whole package is wrong.

Ah, welcome to our
little world, Maclntyre.

This is a bay in a million.

This harbor here is a natural for
blasting in the underground tanks.

ANTHONY: Incredibly
steep, isn't it?

These sorts of models
give us vital clues

to understand the interaction
of waves on beaches,

the interactions of the
beach and the upper beach,

and then the availability of sand to
be brought into sand dune systems,

such as we've got on the
Aberdeenshire coast.

HANSOM: In many what we've got
is a very, very clear model

of sand moving in a
northerly direction.

Crystal clear. That is very interesting
from the point of view of science

from the point of
view of understanding

how our landscapes adjust
to climate change.

HANSOM: It is the only one left. And
once we've lost the only one left,

we're dealing with essentially
artificial systems.

And the problem with
artificial systems, of course,

is that because we've meddled
with them in some way,

we don't actually know what
the forward track might be.

These are tees that are build
onto very steep sand dunes,

so they will have to be
built up artificially

by movement of sand from
elsewhere on the site.

Up to eight meters vertically
will have to be emplaced

and that will involve moving biblical
amounts of sand from A to B.

So not only do you lose
the natural dynamism

that this area is noted
for scientifically,

you will stabilize it, so
you'll lose the dynamism,

but also you'll be constructing
a largely artificial

sand dune environment.

TRUMP: Well, I've
stabilized the dunes, and

that means the dunes
will be with us forever

and that's good, because dunes
can be gone with the wind,

I mean, dunes can move and
shift and sometimes they do,

but when you stabilize them
they're with you forever,

so, I've stabilized them

and ultimately I think that's going to
be a great factor and a great thing

for Scotland and for Aberdeen.

These wilderness environments are
our equivalent, if you like,

of the Amazon rainforest or
the swamps in South America.

And many of these wilderness environments
have been lost around the world

and in Britain we've got very,
very few of those left.

And what's happening here is
that we're losing yet another.

We've had tremendous support
from the environmental groups

and, so I'm very
happy about that.

I mean, we've had great,
great environmental support.

I've received many environmental
awards over the years.

I think the greatest thing I've
ever done for the environment

is what I'll be doing
right here in Aberdeen,

but when we went to our meetings
we had tremendous support

from major environmentalists
and environmental groups.

Is my hair okay? It's
blowing all over...

Have a look in the lens.

I can't see it. Do you have a mirror?
Emily, give me a mirror.

HANSOM: There are no environmental
organizations that I know of

that favor this development.

TRUMP: Who has a mirror?

HANSOM: RSPB opposed it,

SEPA, the Scottish Environmental
Protection Agency,

Scottish Natural Heritage were
violently opposed to this development,

World Wildlife Trust were
against the development,

and the Ramblers' Association
were against the development.

I know of no credible
environmental organization

that favored such a development
on environmental terms.

This is an accolade site, a site
of special scientific interest,

the highest conservation accolade
that this country can bestow,

and yet we allow a golf
course to be developed on it,

which will remove the
scientific interest completely,

and it's something of
a personal tragedy

and great sadness across
the scientific community.

MUNRO: It is alarming.

Well, look at what security
did to me a long time ago,

came out of nowhere, stopped my
car, hands on bonnet, and...

I got a scare.

They're saying that's
for the lorries,

that cars and pick-ups and
everything can still use our road.

What, have we got a gap
in the trees already.

Well, those trees are seemingly coming
down, which they shouldn't taking down.

I'll have to show
it to Mike Forbes.

That's where their spring
is, up in these trees.

We'll go down Mike's road
and we'll have a look.

I haven't been down Mike's this week.
Oh, God.

Lorry.

I don't think there's
anybody in, is there?

I do worry about the water.

Moira, David Milne's wife,

she had a dream that she woke up one
morning and we were disappeared,

we were all under water.

I said, "Oh." She said, "I looked
out the window and you were gone.

"All I could see was water."

She had a premonition. I said,
"Oh, don't say that, Moira."

Oh, Mike, you are gonna have
problems with your water.

Really horrified to see this bank.
I mean, what is it?

I think it's a road, and that
these trees are coming down.

This is absolutely horrendous.

That'll be the end
of the spring.

Who are you with?
ANTHONY: I'm freelance.

As are the rest of the press,
anyone who comes in here,

would have the...

Do you want to turn that off or
do you want to leave it on, or...

I'll just leave it on, yeah.
MAN: Yeah?

I'm sure you're well aware, we've
had a lot of damage here...

I was causing damage there? No, no, no,
I'm only just putting in the picture.

ANTHONY: You know, I'm just basically
over-looking from this bank.

There shouldn't be any health or
safety consideration, should there?

No, no, no, there isn't. But
again, I would ask you,

to announce yourself
to the site.

It's the wish of the clients.

Or if you wish to film on site, we have
no issue with it at all, you know,

there's no problem.

Sorry? I'm just freelance, yeah.

Hi, there.

What you doing down here?
Just doing a bit of filming.

If you're freelance,
you film for yourself?

Yeah, just film for myself.

There's a lot of publicity
now about this area...

Yeah.

And a lot of this area down here
is now classed as a work site.

Yeah. So for health and safety
reasons you should really

be contacting the department.

This is Estate land. Right.
Yeah, but...

The access roads.
I thought in...

There's not a sort of right to
roam, is there not in Scotland?

There is, but not
within vehicles.

But I wasn't in a vehicle up there,
I was standing... But again...

Excuse me one second. Could you
switch your camera off, please?

And of course you can't cut
across the dunes, now,

because they've built this road.

That's the road they built.

They've laid those across
the natural drainage,

so they're trapping water
all over the place.

Look at that.

Yeah, this goes up and down
with the tide, all this lot.

Hello, how are you? It's
terrific, that water.

Yeah. They've virtually dammed
us and they put in that road.

Mike's concern is where are
they going to pump it to?

Trees suck up water, that's
why the trees are planted.

Now they've taken the trees
away and buried them in a hole.

Took them away and
buried them in a hole.

They dug a big hole
over the back here.

They took all the trees
and put them in the hole

and buried them.

According to my neighbor, He says there
was 400 trees buried over there.

MUNRO: And as we go around
the corner, Anthony,

if you keep looking ahead,
you will see our little,

little forest here
has now disappeared.

I came home, and my son said to me,
"Oh, Mum, all the trees have gone."

Oh, me.

The marram grass being
stripped into blocks,

taken away in huge dumpers.

And as you can see, from the
last time we were here,

there's been vast
quantity of sand taken.

I just can't believe it.

Be interesting to see where
all this sand's coming from.

FORBES: That's the sand
dunes they're driving.

The sand dunes from over there,
they're putting over here.

I didn't think they were
allowed to move them.

That should be on now.
Yeah, that's it. And

then you just press that,
that button there.

Yeah. The one on the right.
Yeah.

So I'm filming. Always.

To come here every day, you really get an
idea of the destruction that's happening.

Also notice there doesn't
seem to be anybody

coming down, checking
on anything.

There's no nobody.
Never see a...

The only person you ever see is
security, keeping people away, really.

I look at Mr. Forbes and his disgusting
conditions in which he lives

and that people have
to look at that

and it's about time that
somebody spoke out.

It's almost like, in fact it is
like, a slum-like condition.

For people to have to
look at this virtual slum

is a disgrace.

Mr. Forbes is not a man that people
in Scotland should be proud of.

Mr. Forbes is not a respected man
among the people that he lives with.

I mean, people have
come up to us, they've

written us notes, they've
written us letters,

that this guy is all sorts of things.
And I won't say it.

They're saying it.

Mr. Forbes lives in a pig-like
atmosphere, it's disgusting.

They are really lovely, genuine,
honest, authentic people.

And they're really
sincere people.

And, yeah, absolute pleasure to be
involved in a project with them.

FORBES: David McCue,
he's an artist,

and he got in touch with me

asking if it would be okay
if he did an art exhibition.

I said, "Yeah, if
you like, yeah."

So, we were going to do it in a marquee
tent out here, but he wasn't for that.

He had to have it in that shed there.
Why, I don't know,

but he had to have
it in that shed.

The worst shed I've got and
he had to have it in that.

I think we'll just stick
with that for just now.

And can we fit all four on?

MCCUE: Yeah, that one too? Yeah.

MCCUE: I loved the barn, because
the minute you started to change

and put things in there it kind
of re-contextualized the work

in exactly the way I
hoped it would do.

Aye. Bringing back everything
that I took away...

MCCUE: It was great meeting
Michael's wife, Sheila.

I says, "Dave, what the hell
do you think you're doing?"

MCCUE: She's really feisty and
has a great sense of humor.

A great sense of who she is,
her own kind of identity.

Sheila chooses to sometimes
be out of the limelight,

but other times I think it's
important to hear her voice too.

The drawing represents,
or is a metaphor for,

behind every successful man
there's a strong woman.

I really wanted to find for
myself what the truth was,

what was happening at that site, like
the security presence for instance,

and that was really stressful
for Sheila and Michael,

and Molly as well. You know, that's their
homes, and it would just be a vehicle

that would circle their land

and stop, pause, and
then move off again,

but it's intimidating and I certainly
felt like that the week that I was there.

This one, for me,
was very much...

It's a very typical
Trump stance and pose

that he does very often and it's almost
like a trademark the way he gestures

and his body language.

Obviously referenced Warhol quite
considerably with the repeat pattern

of the dollar sign that's
like a brick wall.

You've hit a brick wall,
dead-end kind of scenario.

The media has been coming
down to this place,

has been talking about it as a
slum, which it certainly isn't,

and to be able to sort
of show off the interior

of that barn which we've always
just seen the exterior of,

and get a real glimpse into history,
the heritage of this space,

a glimpse out of the back square that
looks onto all of the other properties

which are in a similar position of maybe
coming under a compulsory purchase,

it was just... it was perfect.

Twenty thumbs up on me hobby.

It's in grossly bad taste,
which of course is spot on.

I'll need a hockey
stick, a baseball bat.

MCCUE: I really wanted an interactive
piece, that was quite important,

that they weren't just passively, you
know, looking at pieces of work.

I'd seen some of them in a
computer, David's computer,

but they don't look the
same in the computer.

FORD: Once again, there's a
very pleasant atmosphere,

and whilst this is a
very serious business,

it's great to see members of the
community coming together like this

in support of the
local residents.

MICHAEL: My father was a salmon fisher.
WOMAN: What's that?

MICHAEL: When I was born. I was
born in this bay on the beach here.

WOMAN: Uh-huh.

And then we moved to...
Inland a wee bit.

Couple of mile
inland to Fintray.

And then he got a job in Cullen.
Uh-huh.

So we moved into Aberdeen. And it was
Aberdeen I lived till 14 and a half,

and I had enough of that, Aberdeen. I
come up here and worked with my uncle,

when I left school.

I can't get near
it for the kids.

But they're cheating though, they're
throwing it down his throat.

The Trump paintings, the accent's
very much on the red, the anger.

Whereas Michael's very much the
cool blue and the relaxed greens

and reflect the diversity of where
they come from and what they mean,

and what their intentions
are, you know.

I think these intentions
are very angry,

very self-motivated,

very self-interested.

They way they display their wealth
and their attitude, you know,

it is very much a contrast
with what goes on here.

But you would expect that. I mean,
he's an international figure

and Michael's a very local figure,
he's very much appreciated by

his local friends and
people who know him.

MUNRO: A lot of
local people here.

Certainly a lot more
down to life, you know?

I think in living in the
real world, you know?

And it just shows you,

you know, the support
we have round about.

WOMAN: Absolute bias in the favor of Trump.
MICHAEL: Aye, aye.

WOMAN: And rude, and he's negative...
That's right.

Aye... destructive
comments about you.

And it's very personal, isn't it?
I know, I know.

MAN: Flying about is a
most extravagant thing,

and building a property
and golf development

here to attract American golfers

is just contrary to
environmental way of life

that we will have to lead.

As a personal gift to
Michael and Sheila,

it feels important for me
to give something to them

for all the help that
they've given me.

Like all my paintings, I find
it very difficult to talk about

while it's in its early stages.

It's going to be an image of
Michael on a salmon fishing boat.

MOLLY: It was a Saturday.

Michael was washing
the Land Rover

and he also washed Sheila's car.

And then the hose went to
a trickle, and he says,

"Oh, my water's surely off."

So, he came over and said to me,

"Be canny with your water.
Because I think it's going off."

See that line of trees? Well,
just as this end here,

that's where my well is. Well,
it's a spring-cum-well.

As you can see, the lorry is
going around there just now.

They built the road
on top of my spring.

Well, I think my water's more important
than his bloody road just now,

but not to them.

I phoned up. They keep saying they're
going to fix it. I'm still waiting.

You'd think it'd be a priority.

See, it's... No water. Dry.

ANTHONY: How long has
that been going on for?

That's since last Saturday.

They were digging
up there on Friday.

And Hughson from down the road, he went
up and complained there was no water.

They said they would get
it fixed right away.

It's a week now I've been waiting
and they still haven't done it.

I got the police down and they won't
have nothing to do with it either.

Be different if it was the
other way around, like.

If it was me cut off their water,
I would have been charged by now.

I'm really pissed off. I'm
running out of clean clothes.

Dishes is piling up.
You need water.

I've been taken water out of the
burn to have a wash in the morning.

It's not right.

MOLLY: I needed
water for the hens,

because they drink
a lot of water,

my plants outside, and
my two greenhouses.

So I took the barrow and our,

we call them a rouser,
the watering can,

and a piece of rope
tied to a paint pot

and I dipped in the
paint pot in the burn

and filled the rouser

and just rolled the
barrow back up again.

And then Michael said,

"There's aye a wee drop
coming from the hose."

His hose. "So you'll get
some for drinking."

It's dry.

This is just another ploy, as I said,
with Trump, to piss people off. You know?

It's just... It's not on.

I'm really pissed off, as well,
that the police's all one-sided.

This say as they're not
biased, of course they are.

Yeah.

No, I'm just trying to work
out the facts, basically.

Not an angle. No.

It's not an angle. I'm just
trying to work out why...

If Michael has been without
water for a week...

Rather than the two of us discuss this...
Yeah, no, why...

ANTHONY: What are we looking
at over here, then?

Quite a mess, now. We seem to
have inherited a new lake here.

Um, Mr. Trump, I don't
know what he's doing,

but he's scraped all this...
Oh, here's the police now.

Mmm-hmm. You got
a photo of them?

FORBES: Next thing was the security van
comes sneaking around the corner there

and told the police you were
over there with Suzie Munro.

And then they just
took off up the road.

And before they went away I says to them,
I says, "Who are you away to charge now?"

And they says "We don't charge
anybody, we're the good guys."

With all due respect, sir, would
you mind turning the camera off?

ANTHONY: What's it about?

I bet they've been on the phone
about this, your visit there.

It's absolutely sickening.

Absolutely sickening. This is
what it'll have been about.

Tell ya, I hope they get onto
Environmental Health today

because having no water for
a week and no toilets,

no facilities is an
absolute disgrace.

They've removed all the
topsoil off the ground,

I mean this is almost like a floodplain.
As you can see,

with the bulrushes and everything,
it's just marshground.

And of course common sense
would tell you that the water

you know, flows down to the sea.

Common sense would
tell anybody that.

So that's gonna have
to be rectified.

Because I see it.

I think environmental health
is the next protocol for them.

But we'll just have to wait and
see what transpires today.

Who's in charge between
the two of you gentlemen?

RICHARD: We're just
here as individuals.

What are you here for?

That's no problem. Um...

Could I take note of
your name, please?

RICHARD: Why?

Because there's been an
alleged breach of the peace

up at the Menie
Estate this morning.

And? Oh, my God.

And, as such, we're
making inquiries,

so could I have
your name, please?

My name's Richard Finlay.

Okay. And yourself, sir? Could
I have your name, please?

Yeah, I'm Anthony Baxter.

MUNRO: And then he just became more hostile
and more hostile, and lunged at you.

Gave you no explanation.

What we need to do know, though...
No, you do not.

You have been detained under
Section 14 of Criminal Procedures,

Scotland Act 1995.

MUNRO: What's he done? ANTHONY:
Could you grab that for me?

Just get that. Richard,
grab the film.

RICHARD: Excuse me. OFFICER:
Let go of the camera.

Let go of the camera. Let go of the
camera before it gets damaged, sir.

OFFICER: Let go of
the camera, sir.

MUNRO: And then the
next thing I know,

you're wrestling over the
bonnet of Finlay's van.

This policeman attacking you.
Trying to pull the camera off you.

Still not giving you any
reason why, what you've done.

I think it was totally
out of order.

ANTHONY: do that to me!

OFFICER: Right, sir...

MUNRO: Then slammed the handcuffs
on and I saw your wrist was grazed

and everything, and that
was totally out of order.

MUNRO: That's disgraceful!

ANTHONY: Will you loosen those
cuffs, please? OFFICER: Stop.

Have you... ANTHONY: Will you
loosen those cuffs, please?

They're hurting me. MUNRO: This
is a very sad state of affairs.

ANTHONY: You're hurting my arm.
Sir, if you stop shouting...

ANTHONY: Look will you
stop doing that to me!

ANTHONY: It's 8:30 in
the evening, um...

I just got back to my car after
being in the police cells

for four hours.

We also had our camera confiscated
and our footage confiscated

by the police.

MOLLY: I think it was Susan
that said, you know...

And I was quite upset about it.

I thought, "Oh, gosh. A
nice lad like Anthony."

"Being taken into jail?"

God! I couldn't sleep.

About it, you know?

I thought, "God, who'd
like these Trump people?"

They're horrors.

Aye, "Two men charged
over 'filming' at Trump."

I'm sick of seeing this.

"Golf will put Northeast
on tourism map."

I don't know what he's
wanting to hide here,

but this, keeping people away off
this huge swath of land's not right.

And then there's that hostile
attack on Anthony for no reason.

The police wouldn't
give any reason.

Mmm-hmm. The mess he's making.

Well, there's something,
I mean, this is...

I've never seen anything
like this anywhere.

ANTHONY: Does it feel
to you that the police

are somehow working
on behalf of Trump?

Oh, definitely. Definitely.

Michael called
them to the water.

And they just
couldn't care less.

It's against the law to
cut off anybody's water.

And if they had damaged it, though,
suppose it was an accident,

they should have been
supplying them with water!

There and then, you know?

Oh, aye.

NEWSREADER: On his hit
show The Apprentice,

Donald Trump's word trumps all.

And it appears that power extends to
his business venture in Scotland.

At least for now.

Recently, two British journalists
found themselves arrested

at the site of Mr. Trump's
golf resort near Aberdeen...

You have been detained under Section
14 of Criminal Procedures...

That's quite incredible. That is just...
That's bullying harassment.

It really is shocking.
It's an assault,

on journalists trying to do their job.
It's completely out of order.

Certainly people around the
world have been taken aback

that this type of
thing could happen.

Um, where journalists were actually
arrested, violently arrested,

handcuffed, taken to the cells,

having been fingerprinted, DNA tests and
having their equipment taken off them,

kept in the cells...

No, I haven't. I've never
seen it like this.

I know people have been done for contempt
of court for covering court cases

and refusing to
expose the sources.

But this was just an interference
in journalists trying to film

what really is a
public interest story.

To me, they seem to just get
away with anything they want.

I mean, they cut off the water, what
will they try next, cut off electric?

They'll knock down a pole
or something, you know?

Oh, aye.

MC: From New York, the
greatest city in the world.

It's th Late Show
with David Letterman.

Tonight, Donald Trump...

Now this is the guy, this
is the classic story.

Donald Trump, big
American comes,

wants to buy up his ranch or
his farm and he says, "Nope!"

So is he going to sell or
is he not going to sell?

I don't know, I don't need it. It's
not in the way of what I'm doing.

It's on the outskirts
of what I'm doing. If I

buy it that'll be fine.
But nothing I need.

They're using me as an excuse
not to build the hotel.

They're saying "Oh, it's an eye-sore, a
pigsty," or whatever they want to call it.

But it's a working place. There's
going to be stuff lying about.

I don't throw nothing out. Because you
never know when it's going to be handy.

And I'm bloody sure no other farmer
would throw anything out either.

FORBES: I was sitting in
here I was on the computer,

I was looking for parts
for my tractors.

And Mickey Foote phoned in
the afternoon and says,

"Do you know there's
diggers on your land?"

So I had a look out and I saw
the diggers working away.

So I didn't tell anyone what I thought was
going on, just in case they got excited.

MOLLY: I was disgusted
and felt ill about it.

I mean, all that happening
on Michael's land.

That they wanted to buy?

FORBES: I took my
title deed with me.

And I says, "You better just put
everything back where you got it."

And there was two policemen there so I
shouted and said, "Who's the boss here?"

MOLLY: They didn't do
anything about it.

They were guarding them,
pulling out the poles

and putting up fences.

FORBES: And I tried to show them
on the title deeds what was mine

and they weren't interested.

They said, "We are just down here to
make sure there's no damage caused."

Bloody damages? They were
ripping up my place.

This is the one I used to use with
my father. I see they busted it all.

And that was the police
that was supposed to

be watching it so
there's no damage done.

It looks really respectful, eh?
They busted it all.

They've surely phoned the
security, here they come now.

They've got a road made now.

That's my land there.

Not now. That belongs
to them now.

Now, I've seen enough of this.

This here is the original
Menie salmon fishing plans.

And as you can see here,
in black and white...

This is the land here for
Menie salmon fishers.

But they are saying in the papers today
that their plan supersedes my plan.

This here is Trump's plan

of the same area as here.

And with this corner cut off.

Andy Whiteman. Mike Forbes.

Good to see you.
Good to see you.

What a bizarre goings-on. I'm glad
you can laugh about it sometimes.

Well, you have to. You have to.
Aye. Oh, aye.

WHITEMAN: If you have a dispute with
your neighbor about whose land is whose,

you seek to resolve it amicably and
ultimately you would go to the courts.

You don't grab it. You
don't nakedly grab it.

That's what they
did in the past.

If everyone was to do that, it would be
a state of strife across the country.

And the other thing is that maps at that
time are not as accurate as maps are today.

So I thought, maybe Trump's arguing about
a few meters here and all the rest of it.

But the fact there is a map.
The fact that it's colored.

The boundaries are
shown clearly.

I mean, a lot of land's
sold with no maps. Yeah.

The police are correct in that where your
boundary is not a matter for the police.

It's not a criminal matter.
They shouldn't be here.

They shouldn't even
have been here.

And the fact that Trump has got a dispute
here, thinks he owns this land...

It's a civil matter.

Before all this happened,
they put on a line of flags.

Little red flags
with pieces of wire.

And they put them in here.
I removed them all.

And I was charged with theft.

FORBES: There was all these little
bloody red flags all over the place.

And they were a danger because my grandsons
play there and there were sharp wires.

Twenty-seven I pulled
out of my land.

Twenty-seven of these
bloody things.

Is that charge still...
The prosecutor physical,

sent a letter back saying
they've dropped it,

but if I do anything
like that again,

I will be severely dealt with.
So, I'm guilty.

I'm guilty and I would have
preferred if it went to court.

To me, that suggests double standards.
And very, very political policing.

ANTHONY: Have you ever come
across a case like this?

No. No. No. This
is unprecedented.

That's a bit stupid isn't it?

They've left an
access there, look.

Where does it go? Nowhere.

How can he say that's
better than nature?

Boy, the man lives
in cuckoo land.

ANTHONY: That flag stands for...

Freedom, and for a country that
you are passionate about...

Presumably. Used to be.
I used to be.

Until Salmond gave him the right
to destroy the bloody lakes.

I voted for SNP for 35 years.

I'll never vote for them again.
Never.

They've done this country wrong.

They're giving it away
to the Americans.

MALE REPORTER: American tycoon Donald
Trump has jetted into Aberdeen,

ahead of receiving an honorary degree
from the city's Robert Gordon University.

REPORTER 2: This afternoon, the "Tripping
up Trump" campaign handed in a

six and a half thousand signature petition
against the university's decision.

It's really quite sad
to see what he's doing.

I thought it was going
to be done with a

little tweak here and there but it's not.
It's just been flattened.

Especially right beside us
and he's just moving south.

Awful that our country has let
him take our SSI and not...

And I'm sure he's having a quick
smile to himself, you know?

MUNRO: They swarm
around here like flies.

Whenever he's here, and I
mean, it's just a joke.

I also think it's just
so false, you know?

All these people are arriving
suited and booted and...

"Yes, Mr. Trump. No, Mr. Trump."

What has he done here
to deserve this,

but to destroy a site of special scientific
interest and a beautiful dune system?

TRUMP: The people love
what we're doing.

They love that I'm spending hundreds
of millions of pounds on doing it.

They love the fact that I'm
creating a lot of jobs

Mr. Trump doesn't appreciate
just how much the system moves.

None of these things
will ever come back

because the conditions
would be totally changed.

And all these chemicals
on the greens and...

Oh, me. You just wonder where
it's going to end with this.

MUNRO: The last time he was
here he made quite a...

Rather sour comment about
myself, and Finlay and the dog.

"Demonstrators." And I thought, "I'm
not a demonstrator, I live here."

This one was from the students and any
gift from the students I always valued.

Because I thought that was
what my work was about.

From the moment I decided that I was
going to hand my honorary degree back

my thoughts were all about how I
could get the maximum publicity

because I knew that simply handing
it back in a private manner

it would simply be put away and
that would be the end of it.

How difficult is it for you
to return this degree?

It's not difficult at all. I'm going
to march in that that door and ask

whether the principal is available. If he
isn't, it will be given into the desk.

And that will be it. Because somebody's
got to stand up to these people

and make sure that the world knows, there
are people who don't approve of this.

I don't approve of bullying.
I don't approve

of bullying people
on the Menie Estate.

That is my honorary degree certificate.
"Not Wanted."

"Not wanted."

MILNE: For someone in such a
significant and serious position,

to take what is very obviously a
very personal and determined stance,

is a very positive thing for us.

We are here in pure support of Dr.
Kennedy and his position.

Donald Trump has said, he thinks
you cannot be too greedy.

He believes that you should
be brutal and powerful.

He believes that sacking
people is not a bad thing.

He boasts about the number
of people he's sacked.

These are not the sort of
qualities I would expect

of a man who is to receive
an honorary degree.

He feels very strongly.

And I think under those circumstances
it isn't a difficult decision to make.

REPORTER: David, what
happened inside?

Well, Professor Harper
wasn't available.

And so I saw one of
the vice-principals.

But of course she's following
the party line that

Mr. Trump is a very
successful entrepreneur.

He's a billionaire and of course
that tells you everything.

MAN ON RADIO: "They're making
a mockery of the system."

The words of Dr. David Kennedy.

Who's handed back his honorary
degree to Robert Gordon University.

And he has this message
for the tycoon.

KENNEDY: Don't trample
on your neighbors.

Don't destroy the
environment of Aberdeen.

And this is part of the jewels of
Scotland that is being destroyed.

My view is take your money
elsewhere, we don't want it.

It's a positive paper, but it's
letting people know the truth.

We feel that people just don't know
the realities of this development

and if they did know,
they'd think twice.

There's some people in Aberdeen that
really want this development to go ahead,

powerful people and they're not letting
the word out on what's going on.

Have you been out at Menie House?
I have. A lot.

And have you seen some of the ram-shackle
dumps that are around there?

If you're referring to
Michael Forbes', sir...

I'm not referring to anything specific,
I'm talking in general terms.

Have you seen it? I've
been to many, yes.

Here's the point. You take in wealthy
people from all over the world, flying in,

and the plane there, and they're looking
at houses that are in bad condition,

with ram-shackle tractors and old
farm implements lying over there.

Do you think that does any good to the
vision of Scotland throughout the world?

NEWS ANCHOR: American billionaire,
Donald Trump, defied his critics

to pick up an honorary degree from
Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University.

He's pledged to build the
world's greatest golf course

on the Menie Estate
in Aberdeenshire.

MALE REPORTER: Today, Aberdeen's
Robert Gordon University recognized

U.S. tycoon, Donald Trump's,
ability to make money.

Now a Doctor of Business
Administration...

PHOTOGRAPHER: A nice, casual shot against
the railing would be quite nice.

PHOTOGRAPHER: Can we get
your frown again, Mr. Trump?

Thank you very much.

Hello, everybody.

REPORTER: Is the
course on schedule?

Yeah, the course is
in perfect schedule.

In fact, if anything,
it's ahead of schedule.

And I am very happy to report
that, everything we've done,

I think it's even coming out better than
we had anticipated in our wildest dreams.

It's going to be
really spectacular.

There doesn't seem to be
people against the job.

The only one I see is this gentlemen
right here, who I've never seen before

until yesterday when he
started screaming. Question?

Real journalists, I
want real journalists.

Mr. Trump, I wonder what you'd say to Dr.
David Kennedy.

He handed back his degree last week and
said that your honor was an insult

to decent people everywhere,
and also accused you of

bullying people on the Menie Estate.
I myself have been

arrested, handcuffed, and put
in a prison cell for four hours

whilst interviewing your representative,
Mr. Paul O'Connor on the site.

I just wondered whether you felt that was
the right way to treat people, and whether

in fact, you had
anything to hide.

I never heard of Mr. Kennedy. I don't
know who he is, so, I can't really refer.

I mean, you're asking me about a
person that I've never heard of.

Dr. David Kennedy, the
former principal of...

I've never heard of him.
I'm sorry.

This is a very popular job.

It's only questions like you
ask that cause trouble.

Any other questions?

Yes, Mr. Trump, I just wondered

if you could tell us how
many local people are...

WOMAN: One question
per journalist.

How many local people are
employed on the site.

A lot. We have a lot of
local people employed.

ANTHONY: Can you give us a number?
We're just beginning.

I don't have numbers. We're just
beginning, but a lot of people,

and there will be more and more.

We've had hundreds of
people doing the marram,

and now we're ready to start the marram
grass again. That's a very big project.

But we've got a lot of local
people employed on this site.

But it is an Irish contractor?

MILNE: So I'm going to go and phone
the police shortly and let them know.

Take it from there. I've
also spoken to the lawyer.

I'm phoning in connection with an incident
number you already have on your books.

Incident 56 of the 18th of October.
In other words, yesterday.

Well it was regarding, we expected
some persons to come onto our land

yesterday and cut down
and remove a fence.

That didn't happen.

However, they have come on today and
cut down and removed that fence.

This is the letter that we received.
They're saying that I have a fence

and part of a shed or other building
erected on land belonging to them.

They're saying that they now
intend to remove the fence.

You'll notice I'm not given the
option to remove it myself.

And that they may, if they choose, put
the fence back up on their drawing.

As far as the shed goes,
they're giving me 72 hours,

or they're going to raise an action in
the Sheriff Court, to have it removed.

If you take the double garage
that is sitting here, okay?

I have a stick shed
that sits here.

There's an old brick shed from
the coastguard days sits there.

And the house actually
sits in about here.

Out here there is a pole for
the overhead electricity line.

They are claiming at the moment
that this boundary actually

runs something like that.

And here, they're trying to take
the back wall off my garage.

TRUMP: We've been very nice.
We've tried to be very nice.

We actually just learned that one of them
may have built their house on our land.

We learned that last night
when we were doing a survey.

One of the people actually have a big
chunk of their house on our land.

So we're having
that checked out.

You'll find out.

MILNE: I've come home today, I
see that the fence is missing.

That's a police car that
was in here this morning.

Which makes it eight, nine, 10
o'clock this morning or there by.

So it'll be interesting to see what
time the fence actually came down.

They hit the power
line yesterday.

240 volt supply to my house.

MUNRO: Mr. Trump's workmen severed
the line with the digger.

They popped the line, and of
course, everything shorted,

and it cut everybody off.

It's workin' away. Quite the thing.
There you go.

Power went out.

Not only is it, in my opinion,
criminal damage or vandalism,

but now they've also committed
theft by removing it from my land.

Which, if you care to remember,

is precisely what they
charged Michael Forbes with

when he removed marker
poles from the site.

The fence that they put
up without my permission.

"The attached invoice is now due. Please
arrange payment for half of this invoice,"

"£2,820, to be made payable to Trump
International Golf Links Scotland."

I get out of my
bed this morning.

The whole house shaking, things
falling off Finlay's shelf.

But this is getting bigger by the day.
It's incredibly high now.

ANTHONY: Did you ask the builders
what they were doing with this?

MUNRO: Finlay did.
What did they say?

It's Mr. Trump's instructions.

Mr. Trump's instructions? Yeah.

To put all this earth here? Yeah,
to block our view. To harass us.

Obviously. There ain't no bank on
the plans, anything like that.

I don't know what to do.

It's rather meaningless.

It took them maybe a week or 10
days to actually construct, so...

That's quite a lot of work involved.
There's a lot of time involved.

There's a lot of effort
involved for no real purpose.

Get it done, and
don't spend a lot.

It's all on Donald J. Trump's
Fabulous World of Golf.

TRUMP: Sarah, I want to
get rid of that house.

Who cares? You know what?
Who cares?

It's our property, we
can do what we want.

We're trying to build the
greatest course in the world.

This house is ugly.

TRUMP: There are some houses

quite far away from the course, but
nevertheless, they are in view.

But we are berming some of the area
so that you don't see the houses.

I don't want to see the houses.

And nobody has a problem with it.
I guess maybe

the people who live
in the houses have...

There's a great big pond here now
the more muck they're scrapin'

the water's all bubblin' up.

I was just waiting for that.
ANTHONY: The water?

Yeah, water table.
They've hit it.

It's supposed to be
a putting green.

Well, I could cope... Well, I suppose
you'd have to cope with a putting green.

Not that I'd like balls
flying in my garden, but...

They've come today, "We're
making a car park."

"No, you're not. It's
not on your plans."

That big mound in front of us, that
shouldn't be done. Not in the plans.

Because they're just
the dunes there, Kim,

the bit we used to walk
over onto the beach.

I took photos on
Anthony's camera.

I mean, we got a shock. We
just stood and looked around.

Totally flat, sand
everywhere, everything gone.

LETTERMAN: I'm imagining
how beautiful it must be,

these dunes on the beautiful
coast of Scotland.

The west coast of Scotland?
TRUMP: Well, yes, more or less.

And uh... What do you
mean, "more or less?"

It's such a big area, it
covers a lot of territory.

It is beautiful, but I'll
make it more beautiful.

When I finish, it will be far more
beautiful. LETTERMAN: Really?

TRUMP: Yup, that's right.

MAN: I'm not fond
of Donald Trump,

and I wouldn't want to come all
this way to go play a new course

nor one of his facility
courses, so I'm not sure

that it's gonna be a very
successful operation.

You know, he is pretty gaudy. That
is the way he does things, you know.

He's a New Yorker, and uh...

So, I'm sure it will be
a spectacular course.

I'm not sure it will fit in
with the traditions, though.

ANTHONY: He says it's going
to be the best in the world.

Well Donald would say that,
wouldn't he, you know?

Trump will price it most
likely outside of my range.

CHESHIRE: Of course there
will be some local workers.

The question is what proportion
of workers will be local?

And there I think that the estimates that
are made in the economic impact study

are wildly optimistic.

I mean, if I was Irish, I'd be delighted
if Irish workers were being employed.

If I were Polish, I'd be delighted that
Polish workers were being employed.

But they're not going to be
creating jobs in the local economy.

And indeed, migrant workers tend
to remit a lot of their wages

back to where they come from.
So they won't

even be spending within
the local economy.

If a British developer came
along, saying that they wanted

to build 500 houses and
and a 450 bed hotel,

on an area of wild beauty,

remote from any large city,

which was gointg to destroy what
is the most highly protected

type of site we have, a site of
special scientific interest,

which was by all accounts,
a unique type of site,

um, they would be
laughed out of court.

Think of Mr. Trump
as a poker player.

And he's got a hand, but he's also
bluffing the local authorities

and Scottish government to
give him planning permission.

That planning permission is
immensely, immensely valuable.

Thousands of millions
of pounds, probably,

just to get the
planning permission.

So his job is to persuade people
that there's huge economic benefits.

That's his job.

But we should be critically
cautious in accepting numbers

which come from the Trump camp.

ANTHONY: And from what you've
seen of these numbers,

do you think there has
been enough caution?

No, I don't think there's
been enough caution in

critically interpreting
those numbers.

It's not surprising that sort of,
city fathers might be deceived

by a glamorous, international
superstar like Donald Trump.

I do find it more surprising
that the Scottish government,

who I thought was quite canny, has
fallen for it in the way they have.

This is the pond where
all the ducks were.

I don't know what they've done,
but they've now, as you can see,

got this fenced off with
this orange netting.

FORD: Horrifying, of course,
to see the sand just piled up

like that willy-nilly. This was a
pristine and fantastic dune system.

Now, parts of it are in the
process of being wrecked.

And that's very sad.

As things stand at the moment,

much of the rest of it is
going to be wrecked as well.

Oh, fine, fine. WOMAN: Are you?

This is good. This
is great, this.

My name's Michael, I'm
up from Glasgow today.

I'm just here to offer you some support.
Excellent. Thank you.

Good luck.

Hi, how are you doing?

A fine day for it. Show a bit of support.
Thank you very much.

MAN: Come and join us!

KENNEDY: It's good to see that
there's so many young people here,

supporting justice. And
I'm one with them.

I agree completely. And I
find it very, very pleasing

to see so many people turning
out today in order to support

the people who are being
victimized by Donald Trump,

and his profit-making ways.

I'm very proud. It gives you a boost.
It really gives you a boost.

You know, when you're down in the
mouth about what's going on here,

but then you get all these people
supporting you, it's really good.

Yeah, I'm really proud.

ANTHONY: What kind of things
have they been saying?

Oh, just to keep up the fight.
It's always the same

every time. To keep up the fight.
I'm doing my best.

We're going up to the church
hall to have a cup of tea.

(SINGING ALTERED VERSION
OF THIS LAND IS OUR LA ) D

BARMAN: May I help
you gentlemen?

Yes, I'd like to use the telephone.
Is there on in the hotel?

There's a phone box just over there by
the jetty. You'll need some change.

You can talk to anywhere
in the world from there.

Could you change this for me, please?
Tens, the lot.

Well now, I don't think
we'll manage that.

You got any tens, lads?

The gentlemen here would like to make a
very important long-distance phone call.

Intercontinental! Come
on, give me your tens!

Trump Organization,
what can I do for you?

Oh, hello there. Yes, I was wondering if
I could speak to Donald Trump, please.

I'm calling from Scotland, just recording
this call, my name is Anthony Baxter.

Okay, what was it regarding?

Yes, I'm making a
documentary about the

Trump Golf Course development north
of Aberdeen and just wondered whether

I could speak to him about it.

I can give you the
email address...

Yeah, I did email Rhona a few
times actually last year...

And you have the
correct email address?

I think so, because she
returned the email saying that

he was too busy to do an
interview at the time,

so I just thought
I'd touch base.

You can send one again if you like.
Right, I did do that,

and then I didn't
hear anything back.

I don't mind waiting for
the meeting to finish,

it's just that I've only
got so many 50p's here.

And I can't just speak to Mr.
Trump's PA?

Hold on a moment. Okay.

Okay, hold on.

Okay, thanks.

Hello? Hello.

Okay, sir, I'm sorry, but that's the
only possibility to email Rhona.

I'm sorry, sir, I have
to take other calls.

I have to say they're all excellent
pictures, they really are very good.

I love the idea of basing them
on well-known works of art.

They was quite tired by the time
I did get them all together.

And I was as tired as well.

FORD: I think I like
Michael and Sheila best.

It's very close to the
painting on which it's based.

And I'm also wondering what Michael's
contempl ating doing with that fork.