Trans-Atlantic Trend? Trump sees UK vote as validation

The presidential candidate praised the decision by voters in England and Wales to reject the European Union, seemingly unaware that Scotland voted heavily in favour of remaining.

Wearing an open-necked shirt, a suit and a white baseball cap with his slogan “Make America great again”, Trump was asked if he was anxious about the volatility in financial markets following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union on Thursday.

“Scotland is a progressive, tolerant and multicultural country and we oppose the bigotry that Donald Trump represents”, Keir McKechnie of the anti-racism group told AFP. But if the two movements are pulling support from similar wells of political discontent among non-Hispanic white voters, the British side enjoyed a proportionately deeper reserve.

The UK’s stunning vote to leave the European Union has sent political tremors across the Atlantic, with Donald Trump hoping that frustrated United States voters will back similarly sweeping change.

Mr Trump is trying to rebound from one of the worst stretches of his campaign.

“People are angry, all over the world, they’re angry”, he said.

“There were great similarities with what happened here and my campaign”, he said.

Another protester, Jonathon Shafi of Scotland Against Trump, said he wanted the gathering to show unity with demonstrators in the USA who have disrupted Trump rallies.

The trip stands in stark contrast to the welcome President Barack Obama received on a visit to Germany in 2008, when he was the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Meanwhile, many more fed up voters are following the quirky lead of a Virginia woman who “faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton”, according to the obit penned by her son, “chose to instead pass into eternal love of god”.

“I woke up this morning a little dismayed”, said Democratic strategist Dane Strother. “If that under-polled anger was present in Britain, as a Democrat you have to hope it isn’t mirrored here”. He said that he has changed his voter registration from “Republican” to “unaffiliated”.

Trump, say her aides, reacted with “pathological self-congratulations”, a lack of understanding about the situation and a focus on his own businesses rather than the economic impact on American families.

“These are the new balls are available from the clubhouse as part of a new Trump Turnberry range”, Nelson said.

About 30 million votes were cast in the last British general election in 2015, with about 10 percent of those cast by minority voters.

Trump assailed as inappropriate Democratic President Barack Obama’s open appeals to Britain not to split off. Shaking off a tradition of not commenting on United States politics from foreign soil, Trump said Obama had been embarrassed. Pew projects that by November, almost one in three voters will be a minority, and opinion polls show Trump struggling with those blocs.

Trump’s appearance at the course outside Aberdeen was the final event of his two-day tour of his golf resorts in Scotland.