Trump bought the Turnberry golf course and hotel in 2014, saving it from what one local described as the threat of “rack and ruin.” Most locals know a family or friend who is employed by the resort.
Tam Cuthill, 63, from Kirkoswald, worked as a greenkeeper at Turnberry for 38 years.... “It’s one of them ones, it’s 50/50, you either love or hate him,” he said.... “I never found anything wrong with him as such.... He certainly didn’t commit to saying anything bad or anything like that, he’s more likely to shake your hand.”
Charming turns of phrase. I'd go to Scotland to hear more of them but I'm imagining not understanding a word they say. I wonder how much of Trump's interesting speech idiosyncrasies have to do with Scotland, the place of his mother's birth.
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It burns his enemies that he’s appreciated outside the US. His enemies make liberal use of disapproval from foreigners to try and keep him in check. It doesn’t work…
Glaswegian is truly incomprehensible to my USA ears. Edinburgh and environs not so much.
I got pretty good at understanding Glaswegian when I was stationed over there. It was the Geordie accent I couldn't make out.
The vicious progressive left tried to dehumanize Trump and his followers.
Trump is a person like anyone else and a much better than his antagonists in DC who are the scum of the earth.
It is time that the globalist party that rents protestors and pays for political violence to be destroyed.
British libtards are demanding the "Open" cancel Trump by refusing to allow Turnberry from hosting the championship.
When Trump was first election, the Open stated that Turnberry would not host the Golf championship in the forseeable future because of the "distraction" Trump would cause.
Thought that might go away, but they're sticking to it. BTW, the PGA Championship, which no one care about, moved to another venue rather than allow a "Trump course" to sully their golf tournament. LOL.
Good to know some Scots like him. Judging the SNP you'd think every Scot was a crazed Leftist, but I guess not.
"Trump bought the Turnberry golf course and hotel in 2014, saving it from what one local described as the threat of “rack and ruin.” Most locals know a family or friend who is employed by the resort."
Most politicians own businesses that employ thousands of blue collar workers. Just like Trump does.
Quick search shows Joe Biden owns 20 shell companies.
His niece Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
"Quick search shows Joe Biden owns 20 shell companies."
Who don't employ anybody.
We never got an explanation for the companies, did we? The press never even asked.
It’s not that hard to understand Scots talking. Last time we were over there I only had trouble understanding one gentleman. I apologized for my accent, which he found quite funny.
I love talking to Scots.
Ocean: "Judging the SNP you'd think every Scot was a crazed Leftist"
Well Trump is a Scot, and a nationalist, and he is still kind of a leftist by some definitions (industrial policy alone should qualify him). And he is a bit crazed by his near-death/near-jail experiences.
So he's kind of the ANP.
RR (how I pronounce my r's when my Scots genes take over),
JSM
Ref accents: One of the best parts of Clarkson's Farm is his farmhand with a completely impenetrable accent. And this is in Oxfordshire! Kind of a gag, though, as the guy can code-switch into more understandable British English when he really wants to be understood. But when he was born just 70 or so years ago, there was still a regional rural accent that no one else understood.
Julian Fellowes pointed out that Downton Abbey couldn't possibly use historically accurate accents, because they'd need subtitles - literally no one alive today talks like the Yorkshire farmers or the posh people of 1912.
RR
JSM
Why would any fair-minded person be surprised that the true working people in any country would have an affinity for Trump.
It's like that What's The Matter With Kansas book? Sigh ...
"Well Trump is a Scot, and a nationalist,"
Trump is an American. 1/2 Scottish and 1/2 German by ancestry. And he's a nationalist for the USA.
Ocean: "Trump is an American. 1/2 Scottish and 1/2 German by ancestry. And he's a nationalist for the USA."
Yes, that was my point. I was perhaps being too cute about it. How's this: A raving SNP'er can feel affinity for Trump because he is half Scottish and is turning the GOP into an American National Party?
RR
JSM
SNP'er?
Single nucleotide polymorphism?
Respectfully, the use of acronyms should be limited to those known universally.
Country clubs and cemeteries are the biggest wastes of prime real estate, according to Al Czervik in Caddyshack.
Turnberry hosted the greatest Open in 1977. Prime Nicklaus and Watson.
You do not want a Glasgow Smile.
A Glasgow smile is a wound caused by making a cut from the corners of a victim's mouth up to the ears, leaving a scar in the shape of a smile. The act is usually performed with a utility knife or a piece of broken glass, leaving a scar which causes the victim to appear to be smiling broadly.
Ah, Geordie is not bad. Glasgow....well, when they've been drinking they are incomprehensible. And with the Glasgow lads I've met that's usually the case.
I wonder how much of Trump's interesting speech idiosyncrasies have to do with Scotland, the place of his mother's birth.
Trump’s mother is not merely from Scotland. She’s from Tong, Lewis, one of the most isolated, wretched, poverty-stricken places on earth. It’s one of the last holdouts of Scottish Gaelic, and I imagine the English dialect spoken there when Mary Trump was a child was unintelligible even to other Scots.
Let us all imagine Obama, Hillary or Kamala going to Scotland and talking to an audience with a Scottish accent. They are democrats, it's what they do. They can't help themselves.
"I'd go to Scotland to hear more of them but I'm imagining not understanding a word they say."
Oh, you'll understand every word they say. But the words don't mean the same thing there.
They don't drink tea, for example.
They eat it.
So, you'll understand every word they say and not understand what the holy fuck they're talking about.
Let us all imagine Obama, Hillary and Kamala going to Scotland, flying over Lockerbie. One fateful night.
To hear Scots, watch the new Netflix series Dept Q. Fantastic.
Best line, after being told something is the word for crazy, the Brit detective protagonist replies "I thought 'scottish' was the word for crazy.
John Henry
We do owe a lot to the Scottish Enlightenment which mostly came out of Edinburgh. Guys like Adam Smith and David Hume were part of it. Their empiricism, which we Americans have inherited, contrasts with the continental European rationalism.
"Julian Fellowes pointed out that Downton Abbey couldn't possibly use historically accurate accents, because they'd need subtitles - literally no one alive today talks like the Yorkshire farmers or the posh people of 1912.
RR
JSM
7/26/25, 11:40 AM"
Does everyone now want to see Downtown Abby with subtitles, or is it just me?
Just spent over a week in Scotland. From Glasgow, Isle of Skye, Pitlochry, Fort William & Edinburgh. Only had a bit of trouble listening to the farmer doing the border collie demonstration with his sheep.
It was a great trip after a week in England. Only 2 days in London otherwise small villages. Rented a car and had zero issues!
It seems to me that if you can understand David Tennant’s character (Detective Inspector Hardy) in “Broadchurch,” then you should be okay talking to the locals near Turnberry.
A question for Trump: Donald, Where's Your Trousers?>
"I'd go to Scotland to hear more of them but I'm imagining not understanding a word they say."
My brother had a friend from Glasgow. He looked hard. The only word I could understand was "f**k".
Jim at 1219 - cemetery definitely worst use of real estate.
To hear a bit of real Scots watch the opening of Robert MacNeil's great (PBS) documentary on the English Language, “The Story of English,” episode “The Guid Scots Tongue.”
When I was in grad school, my laboratory bench was adjacent to a Glaswegian's bench. For the first six weeks I was there, the only thing he said that I understood was, "Piss off!" I just nodded a lot. Thirty years later, we're still good friends.
There's a Scotsman named Steve Marsh who does a lot of travelogues on YouTube, all with a fine, thick Scots accent.
Here's an example
I'll add that you should look at George MacDonald Fraser's account of his service in Burma during WW2. He does discuss the Glaswegian accent. "Quartered Safe Out Here".
FullMoon, I'd be much more impressed if Biden owned 20 shell stations.
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