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| Donald Trump harangued the former first minister of Scotland as “Mad Alex” and accused him of being on a “mad march to oblivion” in a series of increasingly angry and eccentric letters to Alex Salmond about the windfarms he claimed were blighting his Scottish golf courses. | Donald Trump harangued the former first minister of Scotland as “Mad Alex” and accused him of being on a “mad march to oblivion” in a series of increasingly angry and eccentric letters to Alex Salmond about the windfarms he claimed were blighting his Scottish golf courses. |
| The letters, revealed by the Huffington Post through a freedom of information request, show Trump’s tone swinging wildly between coaxing and threatening. He told Salmond that his dream of Scottish independence would be “gone with the wind” if he continued to support windfarm developments, accusing the SNP leader of being “hellbent” on damaging Scotland’s coastline and then insisting that his own motives were to “save Scotland” and “honour my mother”, who was born on the Isle of Lewis before emigrating to the US in her early 20s. | The letters, revealed by the Huffington Post through a freedom of information request, show Trump’s tone swinging wildly between coaxing and threatening. He told Salmond that his dream of Scottish independence would be “gone with the wind” if he continued to support windfarm developments, accusing the SNP leader of being “hellbent” on damaging Scotland’s coastline and then insisting that his own motives were to “save Scotland” and “honour my mother”, who was born on the Isle of Lewis before emigrating to the US in her early 20s. |
| Referring to windfarms as “monsters”, he suggested that Salmond “let them ruin the coastline of Sweden first”, insisting that “wind power doesn’t work” and warning the then first minister that “your economy will become a third world wasteland that investors will avoid”. | Referring to windfarms as “monsters”, he suggested that Salmond “let them ruin the coastline of Sweden first”, insisting that “wind power doesn’t work” and warning the then first minister that “your economy will become a third world wasteland that investors will avoid”. |
| Trump has been involved in long-running rows over the impact of windfarms on his Scottish golf courses and last December lost a supreme court battle against an experimental offshore array being built in the North Sea several miles off his links course in Aberdeenshire. | Trump has been involved in long-running rows over the impact of windfarms on his Scottish golf courses and last December lost a supreme court battle against an experimental offshore array being built in the North Sea several miles off his links course in Aberdeenshire. |
| Earlier in the year, Salmond urged Americans not to vote for Trump, claiming he had a “bullying” and unpredictable nature that made him unfit to be US president, and revealing for the first time what he described as “green ink” letters that were sent by courier across the Atlantic. | |
| Shortly after his shock election victory last month, Trump turned to Nigel Farage to help him in lobbying against the development of windfarms, which he has fought against being built near his Scottish golf courses. | Shortly after his shock election victory last month, Trump turned to Nigel Farage to help him in lobbying against the development of windfarms, which he has fought against being built near his Scottish golf courses. |
| According to a member of the delegation that went with the then Ukip leader to meet the president-elect in the US, Trump said he was “dismayed that his beloved Scotland has become overrun with ugly wind farms which he believes are a blight on the stunning landscape”. | According to a member of the delegation that went with the then Ukip leader to meet the president-elect in the US, Trump said he was “dismayed that his beloved Scotland has become overrun with ugly wind farms which he believes are a blight on the stunning landscape”. |