Salon.com > Trump gold course http://www.salon.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:55:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Donald Trump destroys Scotland http://www.salon.com/2012/08/03/donald_trump_destroys_scotland/ http://www.salon.com/2012/08/03/donald_trump_destroys_scotland/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12970530 Nearly 30 years ago, director Bill Forsyth made a gentle comedy about a brash American tycoon's attempt to gobble up a quaint Scottish town. The result was "Local Hero," one of the great sleeper classics of modern cinema. So when, a generation later, a real Yankee big shot tried to muscle his way in to Aberdeenshire, on northeast Scotland's most precious coastal land, there was no way it wasn't going to be the stuff of another complicated, colorful tale. It just turned out to be a much, much rougher story.

Director Anthony Baxter's horrifying, frequently outrage-inspiring "You've Been Trumped" chronicles the true saga of what happened when Donald Trump -- a man described in the film as "someone who just isn’t used to hearing 'no'" -- decided to build a golf resort in a territory so environmentally unique it's been called the Amazon rain forest of Scotland. Suffice to say, things got ugly. Ugly like a Trump casino. As Baxter demonstrates with agonizing, unflinching clarity, the result was a community and a land that were literally rolled over in the name of corporate greed -- and with the apparent blessing of the local authorities.

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