29 April 2006

Away wi' the fairies

Once in a blue moon, the Scottish media decide to invalidate our earlier preconceptions. Here, for example, is The Scotsman sending up Mr Trump's pretensions and hinting at his raving egotism:
"Accompanied by the skirl of the pipes, Mr Trump descended from the steps of his black Boeing which, with his name emblazoned in ten-feet-tall gold letters on the fuselage, was the largest private number plate ever parked at Aberdeen airport.
A red carpet had been prepared for the occasion, as well as an honour guard of local dignitaries, while, behind a wire-mesh fence, gathered a collection of plane-spotters.
Mr Trump said to the assembled media: "I could kiss the ground."
He and his management team, flanked by architects and the designer of the new course, Tom Fazio II, then marched into a press conference, where Mr Trump began by explaining that his late mother, Mary Macleod, from Stornoway, was the inspiration behind the project. "I am building this maybe to a larger extent than I know, in honour of my mother," he said."

Who could have thought that The Scotsman would be so subversive?

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