Trump, in Scotland, links Brexit vote to his campaign

The pound plummeted more than 10 cents as results of Thursday’s Breixit vote trickled in, indicating the United Kingdom is in favor of leaving the European Union. “He was surprised. I think he was very surprised to see what happened, but he is a good man and he felt that way – and probably did the right thing”, Trump said.

The first in November, 2012, was The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the so-called Dream Act, which would halt the deportation of about 1.2 million eligible young people brought into the USA illegally by their parents – many of whom had spent their entire childhoods in America and had never known life in another country. “You’re going to have many other cases where they want to take their borders back”, he said.

On the eve of his visit to Scotland, the Democratic National Committee released a statement that the trip was “not the first time that Trump has promoted his products or properties, including steaks, water, wine and hotels, during his run for the White House”.

Trump began the event by calling it “a very historic day for a lot of reasons, not only Turnberry”, in a bit of an understatement that placed his golf resort’s fortunes in conversation with the momentous events that will drastically alter Europe.

“Look if the pound goes down, they’re gonna do more business”, Trump said. Later, while answering reporters’ questions, he also played down concerns that the British economy would be hurt by the vote.

He said the centre-left and centre-right needed to “rediscover radical, powerful answers in a climate driven by anger. a revolt against what is seen as established wisdom, but what is actually people making hard decisions in hard circumstances”. “I think it’s a fantastic thing”.

Trump expressed utter pleasure over EU -Leave results and said Brexit is like his own campaign.

“Many companies have left this area”, Trump said at a June 11 rally in Pittsburgh.

They “took back their country”, he said, echoing a political catch phrase that resonated with the political revolt in 2009 that produced the tea party and the town hall protests against Obamacare a year later.

In Scotland, voters rejected a referendum that would have established independence from Britain in 2014.

Rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign jumped on those statements and Trump’s focus on his business to call his response “dangerous and frightening”.

“He’s constantly dictating to the world what it should do, the world doesn’t listen to him”, Trump said of Obama, “but he’s constantly dictating to other countries, so it doesn’t stop at the water’s edge for him”.

“Come November, the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence”. “He is concerned with himself and that’s it”.

Trump had already voiced his support for a Brexit in May this year, when he said that in his view Britain would be “better off” outside of the European Union, but stressed this is his opinion, not his recommendation.

But 62 percent of Scottish voters backed staying in the European Union, while just 38 percent wanted to depart it.

The Brexit vote “is a criticism of the entire global establishment”, said Mauro Guillen, who teaches worldwide relations at University of Pennsylvania.

“If he had said no to it, I think the vote might have been different. He’s constantly dictating what the world should do”, he said. We stand together as friends, as allies, & as a people w/a shared history. Trump spent Friday morning marking the $200 million-plus rehabilitation of Turnberry on the rocky Atlantic coast. He is slated to hold a press conference later on the green of the 9th hole. He delivered the comments from the greens of the resort, with a bagpiper next to him and a lighthouse in the distance, lending several minutes of his platform to his children to extol the golf course.

Wearing a white hat emblazoned with his “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan, Trump walked up the steps toward the clubhouse with daughter Ivanka and son Eric.