On Monday night, the New York Times reported the latest twist in the Donald Trump “President, Inc.” tour where he appears to be using his soon-to-be position as the leader of the free world to do exactly what was expected of him—try to make money and further his self-interest from the Oval Office. He’s met with Indian businessmen, so far proven unwilling to relinquish his financial holdings to a blind trust, and generally swept away the line between the public interest and his private interests. And he isn’t even president yet. In the smallest, most petty move (to date) the Times reports that during a meeting with British politician and Brexit champion Nigel Farage, Trump “encouraged Mr. Farage and his entourage to oppose the kind of offshore wind farms that Mr. Trump believes will mar the pristine view from one of his two Scottish golf courses.”
Trump’s fight to protect the views from his golf course in Aberdeenshire from wind turbines has, of course, already been rejected by the U.K.’s highest court. “He did not say he hated wind farms as a concept; he just did not like them spoiling the views,” Andy Wigmore, a British media consultant present at the meeting, told the Times. “Mr. Trump ‘did suggest that we should campaign on it’ and ‘spurred us in and we will be going for it,’” Wigmore said.
Shortly after the Times piece was published online Monday evening, it will likely not surprise you that Donald Trump’s twitter account cranked out these beauts backing Farage for a promotion… to amabassador to the U.S.:
And that’s just over the view from a hotel room 5,000 miles away.
