Trump on Brexit: Britain ‘Declared Their Independence From the European Union’

“We don’t want to lose our borders”.

“You are going to have, I think, many other cases where they want to take their borders back”, Trump said.

In Scotland to reopen a golf resort, the wealthy NY businessman stopped to take questions from reporters after arriving in his signature helicopter at Turnberry near his clubhouse resort, a Scottish flag blowing in the wind.

Trump and his supporters meanwhile are embracing Brexit as a positive bellwether for the presumptive GOP nominee.

“Great Britain’s rejection of it must serve as a wake-up call for all of us in America”, the Alabama Republican said. And “taking back their country” means different things to different people.

And Trump noted Friday in his comments that Obama “didn’t stop it at the water’s edge” in urging the United Kingdom to remain in the EU. Returns however showed that Scotland had supported staying in the European Union and would undertake a fresh vote on independence from Britain.

“A lot of people don’t like him”, Trump said of Obama.

Officials said Clinton has, for more than a year, heard Americans talk about their frustration with the economy and the political system, and will continue to lay out detailed solutions focused on creating jobs and boosting middle-class incomes.

“Hillary Clinton has made clear that the first priority has to be to make sure that working families here in America aren’t hurt by this vote and its aftermath”, Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s senior policy adviser, told reporters on a conference call on Friday afternoon. “He is concerned with himself and that’s it”.

Cameron had advocated for Britain to stay in the European Union and announced earlier Friday that he would step down. Trump said Cameron “was negotiating to meet me” at some point, but that probably won’t happen now. “He’s constantly dictating what the world should do”, he said. Clinton, President Barack Obama’s former secretary of state, has framed her campaign as a continuation of his policies, hoping to take advantage of his 51 percent approval rating. “This time of uncertainty only underscores the need for calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House to protect Americans’ pocketbooks and livelihoods, to support our friends and allies, to stand up to our adversaries, and to defend our interests”.

Mr Trump, whose mother was born in Scotland, said the issue of Scottish independence is “up to the people of Scotland” but “we’ve been through this”.

Trump’s reason for his trip to Scotland wasn’t politics, but to check on a pair of championship-level golf resorts he owns there. Trump was also asked about the promotion of his brand that comes along with his campaign.

Several dozen protesters demonstrated outside the resort but were kept at a distance from the candidate and the course.

Trump’s remarks were interrupted by a man throwing golf balls painted with Nazi swastikas.