Salmond hooked by Trump

I wouldn't normally pursue a story such as "who is Trump's barber and can I have the number". But I just had to share this. Any one fearing for the "special relationship" between the US of A and the UK now that Tony "heal boy, heal" Blair is gone, need fear not. According to a recent headline in the New York Post "TRUMP IS HOT TO SCOTS". Wow, he is? Could it really be that a new "Special Relationship" is forming between Scotland's very own Alex "I'm first minister, I've done nothing wrong" Salmond and that legend in his own lifetime [mind surely - ed.] Mr Donald "The" Trump.

In the NYP piece Trump is quoted as saying: "The town went crazy. They all want the project. Ninety-three percent are in favor of it". I'm not sure which town he's referring to (Aberdeenshire has many towns in it - it's a region!), nor which figures for that matter. It's of course not impossible that the Trumpster has been employing the Kremlin's finest pollsters, but no ones asked me; or, for that matter, anyone else I know.

Meanwhile, this side of the pond the shenanigans continue apace with government officers allowing members of the Trump "Special Relationship" team to sit in at a conference call to the council's chief executive. And all of this after it was revealed that Salmond had met Trump's legal team the day before the government called in the plans for Trump's over egged putting range.

In the cold of a blunting North East wind Aberdeen's very own arm of the fourth estate shows it has an incisive understanding of due process and the art of democracy by hailing the removal of the pebble in the Trump shoe (a councillor Ford) from his role as chairman of the infrastructure services committee as a great victory for liberal economic policy (birds have wings, they can easily find another home). The lesson here being: Don't like the answer? Ask another person.

As a side note, I would like to offer my sincerest apologies to First Minister Salmond. In my last post I suggested that he may be a little fishy (Salmon/Salmond, geddit?). As a matter of fact salmon are quite big fish and do not smell when fresh (best stored away from hair products).

Sources
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/7142696.stm
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12132007/news/worldnews/trump_is_hot_to_scots_791561.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/7142344.stm
Evening Express, City Final, Wednesday 12 December, 2007
Press and Journal, Aberdeen Edition, Monday 10 December, 2007


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