Donald Trump hails Scots as 'great, tough people' and 'good fighters'

Donald Trump revealed his feelings about Scottish people during a podcast where he opened up about his parents.

Former US President Donald Trump described the Scottish as "great, tough people" and "good fighters" while speaking openly about his parents on a podcast. The 45th President of the United States spoke openly about being one of five children born to Fred Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump on Andrew Schulz's Flagrant podcast.

His mother was a Scottish immigrant who arrived in New York at the age of 18, having travelled from the island of Lewis in pursuit of domestic work. Trump's father, Fred, was born in New York in 1905 as the son of German immigrants.

He acquired his wealth by creating inexpensive housing for middle-class families during and after World War II, dying in 1999. On the week Trump announced his new golf course in Scotland - named after his mother - will open in 2025, the Presidential candidate spoke fondly about his parents and Scottish people on the podcast, The Daily Mail reports.

He said: "The Scottish people...they're very great people, they're tough people. They're good fighters. [My mother] was funny, she had a great sense of humour.

"My father loved my mother. My father was German. He was serious...he was a tough guy but he had a good heart. We would walk down the street and if someone had a can my father would always put 100 dollars in the can. He had a tremendous heart. He was no nonsense, he was firm.

"My mother was a woman. She loved the Queen...the Queen was great. The Queen honoured me before she died. She honoured me as the President in Buckingham Palace."

It comes after Trump revealed that golfers will be invited to the MacLeod Course, named after his mother Mary, at the Trump International resort in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, starting in the summer of 2025. The course designs were authorised in 2019, along with proposals for 550 new homes north of Aberdeen, as well as stores, offices, and restaurants.

Trump International Scotland vice president Sarah Malone said in a statement: "Since breaking ground with President Trump and [his son] Eric Trump last spring, we have made extraordinary progress. This course is unlike any other links course ever built and is exceeding every expectation.

"There are very few great stretches of developable links land in the world as good as this. A truly remarkable, world-class team of architects, engineers, environmental scientists and industry specialists have been working tirelessly in the background – etching out every square inch of this phenomenal piece of land to create one of the great wonders in the world of golf."

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