Trump vs farmer

[cesar]

Hi
I lived in Scotalnd for a year in the town of Greenock. I am from France and I live now in Paris. I heard about the story watching CNN, and I really want to do something about it. The land Trump wants to buy is awesome, but this is why he shoudn't have it and that Forbes property is like a beacon against greed. I play golf myself and I hit off the tee in Greenock for the first time. Now building a private and select golf course along the fabulous shore north of Aberdeen is absolutely crap! As Gordon Legge put it 'playing golf will ruin a good walk'. And this piece of land should belong to nature and lovers not to corporate world and posh gentry.
cesar

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Hi
this piece of land should belong to nature and lovers not to corporate world and posh gentry.

Posh Gentry. Or, put another way, rich folks. Most of the comments on this thread have slammed Trump because he's got money, and by extension, pissed and moaned about rich folks and successful corporations. Well, I'm sorry if all of you aren't rich, or successful, or "posh"-- however you want to define that word. I take it to mean "well mannered and well bred", but you guys can (and probably will) attach whatever meaning you want to reinforce bigoted views about people with money.

This thread is supposed to be about "Kilts In The Media". Fine. That some fella in a kilt get his picture in the papers because he doesn't want to sell his land to one of Mr. Trump's companies is probably worth posting. But comments about Mr. Trump's haircut, and how "bad" he is, and generally bad mouthing the rich are, in my opinion mean spirited and petty minded.

So, as a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist, I hope Mr. Trump builds his golf course. Not because it will employ people, not because it will bring revenue into the area long after Green Peace shuts down the off-shore oil industry, but because it will annoy the hell out of all of those people who don't like the way Mr. Trump combs his hair, and who object to the fact that the rich (and the posh gentry) have more money than they do.

[gilmore]

You must not watch much US television. I don't either. Trump has a kind of reality/game show called "The Apprentice," and from reports on this and other appearances in the media seems to have a rather unpleasant and arrogant personality or public persona, which I suspect is the basis of much of the negative reaction to him in this thread. And in real life.

BTW my understanding of posh gentry is that it is not unusual that they consider themselves---and are also thought of by others---as quite a few steps above mere capitalists in social stature, having made their money the old-fashioned way: they inherited it.