After a prolonged campaign to persuade the Scottish to bar the construction of an offshore wind energy farm within the vantage point of his scenic golf course, Donald Trump has been handed a resounding defeat. Five judges from Britain's highest court decreed that the wind farm should, and can, be built. Scottish ministers ultimately approved the plan for the offshore wind turbines. The decision of the ministers invited a vitriolic war of words between the notoriously loudmouthed Trump and former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond, who referred to the real estate mogul as "a loser."
According to The Guardian, Salmond branded Trump, "three times a loser" in reference to his many losses in Scottish courts for similar issues. Apparently, Trump's appeals had "at best postponed, and at worst jeopardised, a vital £200m boost for the economy of the Northeast of Scotland."
This taunt, of course, infuriated Trump, who is not one to back away from a war of words. According to Financial Times, Trump fired back, "Does anyone care what this man thinks? He's a hasbeen and totally irrelevant. The fact that he doesn't even know what's going on in his own constituency says it all ... He should go back to doing what he does best: unveiling pompous portraits of himself that pander to his already overinflated ego."
The judges' ruling stated, "It is clear that the consent contains a mechanism enabling the Scottish ministers to use both the construction method statement and the design statement to regulate the design of the wind farm in the interests of environmental protection, and to require compliance with those statements."
Trump's relationship was Scotland was not always so acrimonious. In fact, Salmond even supported a nearly $800 million golf resort in Aberdeenshire, that had initially been refused by the Aberdeenshire council.
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