Menie Estate golf resort
Donald Trump returns to Scotland.. and his ongoing feud with First Minister Alex Salmond
THE American property tycoon, here to tour the site of his planned second golf course, fires off another salvo over windfarms.
Charlotte Thomson
Donald Trump in Aberdeen (Image: Derek Ironside/Newsline)
DONALD TRUMP touched down in Scotland yesterday – and reignited his windfarm row with Alex Salmond.
The property tycoon's private jet landed at Aberdeen airport before he was whisked off to his Menie Estate golf course.
The American – with son Donald Jnr and daughter Ivanka in tow – will tour the site of his planned second course today.
But he insisted the new 18 holes and planned hotel won't go ahead unless First Minister Salmond axes plans for an offshore windfarm.
Trump has written Salmond angry letters demanding the windfarm is scrapped.
Trump said: "It's not about Alex Salmond. It's really about these monstrosities. They are monstrosities that will destroy the beauty of Scotland."
His first 18 holes in Aberdeenshire were voted the world's best new golf course by luxury lifestyle magazine The Robb Report this week.
Trump, who played the links yesterday, said: "That's a great tribute to Aberdeen and a great tribute to Scotland and all the people that wanted to get this built.
"Tomorrow we're going to be walking the new course, the course that we will be building and that will be very exciting.
"I think the second course will be something really special."
The second course would be named after his mother Mary MacLeod, who was from Lewis.
Alex Salmond