You've Been Trumped (2011) - full transcript

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.