You've Been Trumped Page #8

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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, you know, cause trouble.

- Any other questions?

- Yes, Mr Trump, I just wonder if you could tell us

- how many local people...?

- One question per journalist.

- How many local people were employed on the site at the moment?

- A lot.

We have a lot of local people

employed and we are just...

Can you give us a number?

I don't have numbers.

We are just beginning,

but a lot of people.

And there will be more and more.

We've had hundreds of

people doing the marram,

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 the site.

But it is an Irish contractor.

So I'm going to go and phone the

police shortly and let them know.

Take it from there. I've

also spoken to a 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 certain persons

to come on to 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 are saying that I "have a fence

"and part of a shed (or other building)

"erected on land belonging to them."

They are 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 are going to raise

an action in the Sheriff Court

to have it removed.

If you take the double

garage, it's sitting here.

OK. I have a stick shed 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 tying to take

the back wall off my garage.

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.

I've come home today. I

see the fence is missing.

That's a police car that

was in here this morning.

Which makes it eight, nine, ten

o'clock this morning or thereby.

So it will be interesting to see

what time the fence actually came down.

They hit the power line yesterday.

240 volt supply to my house.

Mr Trump's workmen severed

the line with the digger,

popped the line, and, of

course, everything shorted,

and it cut everybody off.

It's working away, quite

the thing. There you go.

Power went out.

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 got out of my bed this

morning, the whole house shaking.

Things falling off Findlay's shelf.

But this is getting bigger by

the day. It's incredibly high now.

Did you ask the builders what

they were doing with this?

Findlay 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's no bank on

the plans. Anything like that.

Oh, I don't know what to do.

It's...rather meaningless.

Took them a maybe a week, ten

days, to actually construct.

So there'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.'

Sarah, I want to get rid of that house.

Who cares? 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.

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

that live in the houses have.

There's a great big pond here.

Now, the more mud they're scraping,

the water is all bubbling up.

I was just waiting for that.

The water?

Yeah, water table, they've hit it.

It's supposed to be a putting green.

I could cope, 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 have been done.

Not on the plans.

Cos there's just the dunes there, Kim,

but 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 round.

Totally flat. Sand

everywhere. Everything gone.

'I'm imagining now how

beautiful it must be.

'These dunes on the

beautiful coast of Scotland.

- 'The west coast of Scotland?

- Well, yes, more or less.'

And... Uh, what do you

mean, "more or less"?

LAUGHTER:

It's such a big area, it

covers a lot of territory.

'It's so beautiful.

'It is beautiful, but I'll

make it more beautiful.

'Actually, when I finish, it

will be far more beautiful.

- 'Really?

- Yep. That's right.'

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 going to

be a very successful operation.

You know, he's pretty gaudy.

I mean, that is the way he does things.

You know, he's a New Yorker.

HE CHUCKLES:

So...I'm sure it will

be a spectacular course.

I'm not sure it will fit in with,

you know, the tradition, so...

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.

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 were Irish,

I'd be delighted if Irish

workers were being employed.

If I were Polish, I'm delighted that

Polish workers are 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.

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