You've been Trumped - Humanity and greed

Wherever you are in the world, one thing is everywhere the same. Everything revolves around green paper called money - the one who has it in abundance dictates everything, trampled on what he gets in his way, while the common man says that a small, insignificant, shit,  pardon my language!


Looking at the documentary film You've been Trumped (Duped you) British director and journalist Anthony Baxter and you can judge for themselves fall into this category of billionaire Donald Trump. The American, who would be a little run for U.S. president, some would not, he decided to seek the most appropriate course for your Golfing megalomaniac project in Europe. 

2005th he decided for Scotland because, as he says, his mother came from that country. "I have never seen such a dramatic and untouched landscape," Trump asserted. He was so keen to shore Aberdeenshire and  decided that there simply must build the best Golf course in the world - because, he said, it will brighten up one of the last pieces of wilderness and island states.

I carried you briefly through the film, and you feel free to let emotions get out. Unless you do not touch these things.

   Area of Special Interest Donald Trump


Trump decided to Scotland's collection of golf courses to add two more, what is it, anyway it is the home of golf for over five hundred, who would notice? Certainly not the local residents whose homes are found in the middle of Donald Trump land. It all began in 2005th , when Trump bought Meni Estate located near the village of Balmedie, north of Aberdeen. And how to build golf courses go hand in hand and building of apartments, Trump decided to build a huge luxury hotel, 500 private houses and 1.000 cottage. The documentary follows a multi-year struggle locals against the building of this complex and their daily harassment by Trump's employees. If you mistakenly thought that this film about a group of demonstrators and protesters who are only slightly revolt, lazy, slackers who pass, as some people would say, anti-business climate, I will correct you.


The first scene of the film showing intact landscape of the area before the arrival of Donald Trump's team. On the one hand you can see the shores of idyllic scenes, and then heavy machinery that destroys the ecosystem. I do not actually need any specialist knowledge or environmental impact study to understand what is going on here. What has many experts worried was the fate of sand dunes - the last in Scotland - which is now gone. Because this is a natural phenomenon of the four thousand year old got the end of the status of Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), which is the highest level of protection of an area. No Trumps project requires stabilization of the wind carried dunes, which actually destroys their scientific value. Baxter was interviewed by Dr. Jim Hansome from the University of Glasgow, who said he had no doubt that it is environmental catastrophe."These wilderness areas are in fact 'Scottish Amazonian rainforest'" said Hans.

"We have a great support to environmental groups," Trump repeated several times in the film, claiming for himself that he promotes the protection of the environment. However, the documentary reveals that all major environmental groups in Scotland clearly spoke against the project, including Scottish Natural Heritage, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Scottish Wildlife Trust and the Ramblers Association. Scottish Natural Heritage - the government's Environmental Protection Agency - said that the construction of this complex to destroy the greatest jewel of the Scottish Natural Heritage. The question arises, how is it possible that Donald Trump without any problems is building golf courses? Baxter us in the film corresponds to that question. And the answer is actually very simple - money.

   Money, money, money


After he bought the land next year, Aberdeenshire Council submitted a request for construction of its Gulf complex. The report stated that his organization Trump International Golf Links (TIGL) employ more than 6,000 people and thus strengthen the British economy. However, the Planning Committee rejected the proposal of the Trumps of the 2007th year. Councillor Martin Ford said that Donald Trump's plans ignore existing planning strategy. When it seemed that some sort of justice will prevail, however, involved the Scottish Parliament and took his request back for consideration. Scottish Finance Minister John Swinney has annulled the Council's 2008th year by announcing that Trump got permission to build. Most controversial is the way in which the potential environmental damage caused by the project were ignored, because of the alleged benefits for the local economy - in which politicians, Mr. Trump is very easily persuaded. And Scottish Prime Minister Alex Salmond has supported the project, arguing that the economic benefit and job creation exceeds the value of the environment. One could say that politicians that decision the interests of the population Estate Menu subordinating economic gain. On the other hand, Paul Cheshire, a specialist London School of Economics and Political Science, which Baxter was interviewed, said that estimates of employment of local people too optimistic. As an example, he mentioned the fact that the construction of golf courses for an Irish company, employing most of its workers.


  Trump: "His farm is in a terrible state. He lives like a pig. "

The documentary also aims to somehow balance the coverage of this topic because Baxter and locals believe that the media from the beginning they inclined to Trump. One of the most powerful scenes in the film is when Dr. Kennedy, the first Dean of the Faculty Robert Gordon, returned her diploma. Are you wondering why? Because the faculty Donald Trump awarded an honorary doctorate."I will not tolerate abuse. I will not tolerate abuse of residents Menu Estate. Do not step on your neighbors, do not destroy the environment... Someone has to stand against this," Kennedy said in his emotional speech, while the returning graduates.

And the only ones who have courage to oppose the Trump and actually done something that most do not dare are just a family with Meni Estate. People who were there spent most of his life, including in the film we see the 89-year-old woman, they decided a Donald Trump not allowed to destroy the Scottish Amazon and destroys their homes. In the film you can clearly hear that Trump claimed that one of the locals, Michael Forbes, built his house on his land, and it has even decided to forcibly expropriated. But at the end of this plan was abandoned. Due to their persistence, the residents had to suffer the harassment of the Trump's  employees, especially security. Neither the police had not responded to their numerous applications, from broken water lines (more than a week) and electricity, to intentionally obstruct views people with a high pile of sand and garbage pile in front of their homes. The film reveals the true face of Donald Trump, his greed, arrogance and disregard for human rights. In several scenes you can clearly hear what he thought of the local population and to be treated. "His farm is in a terrible condition, looks like a slum area. He lives like a pig, "said Trump on Forbes, publicly and without shame.

And Baxter is in her own skin felt the power of money. Specifically, police officers were violently arrested him because he shot and tried to get answers from one Trumpovog employees. Later he said that in the UK by then no journalist has been arrested for trying to interview. Journalist's Association condemned the whole incident clearly.


Do you feel but anger, revolt, sadness, whatever? Because after watching this documentary, the only thing is you can not remain indifferent. And if you expect a happy ending, I have to disappoint you because it is in this story, unfortunately, no. But not all is bad because we are convinced that there are still people who are humanity and the environment ahead of money and greed.

The mystery is for me to live with the greed to which we agreed, says Eddie Vedder, in his poem "Society",dreaming of a society unladen materialism, more humane society where there is no place for man.