Is he mad – or just an immoral genius?
Is Donald Trump Mad? ArtWork reveals its twenty year investigation ahead of the Global Media. All of this is true.
TODAY the most commonly asked question in global politics is whether Trump is crazy, you will hear it being discussed from China to Russia and increasingly in the States.
But who has been exploring this issue for almost twenty years whilst the global media largely slept? Why ArtWork newspaper, Scotland’s biggest circulation arts sheet.. It was almost twenty years ago, in 2007, that the editor, aka Lord Famedram called together his investigators with worrying news, a small holder up in sleepy Buchan was being bullied by a notorious New York property dealer, one Donald Trump.
What was even more worrying was that it was widely rumoured that the Scottish government (who were keen to curry favour with Trump who was promising a “jobs bonanza”) were putting pressure on the local police to move in on a television crew who were investigating Trump.
Trump wanted the farmer to sell in favour of a golf course development he was undertaking and was not only twisting his arm the “Dirt farmer failure whose farm is in disrepair” as Trump was calling him, was even thinking of punching him so hard he would fall on his backside. The farmer had painted “No Golf Course” on the roof of his shed.
Luckily for world peace ArtWork was soon on the case and this troublesome writer was even escorted from a meeting by Eric Trump who was, to be fair, most charming and confided to me that his dad could be ‘a bit tricky on occasions’. (True).
We at ArtWork were then following Trump full on, and as, an investigative journalist who had personally been asked twice by Trump “Who the f----- I was?” when I met him in 1989 in Trump Tower – you can read the story in The Times online if you are interested – I needed little encouragement.
That’s just not the way we do business in Cramond. Trump is a freelance journalist’s best pal. The gift that keeps on giving. For example he has been awarded five honorary degrees, all of which bar one have been rescinded.
He has advised the Scottish government not to allow Moslems into the country, and more recently of course has thrreatened to take over Canada, Greenland, Gaza and even to an extent Ukraine.
However in the interests of objectivity I should add that I have also been very impressed by him. Five years ago I was being a bogus Prof. in Mississippi State University (I was really just a writer in residence, but milking it a bit) teaching the kids about story telling when Trump did a rally at a nearby town so I stuck many of the kids into a bus so that they could see a master story teller in action.
He was magnificent, the king of theatre, talking drivel of course but his mastery of the use of rock music, tame priests and theatrical lighting, and above all else timing, was so impressive that at one point I found myself cheering.
So don’t sleep easy. The world is now in the palm of the hand of an immoral genius. But he too should be nervous, because we at ArtWork are on to him.
Rory Macdonald
AS WE GO TO PRESS we are saddened to hear of the death the beginning of the month at the age of 93 of Rory Macdonald, father of Angus Macdonald the highland M P and in so many ways also a Father of much of commercial endeavour in the area of Fort William
Rory was once celebrated as the jovial publican of a famed pub in Glencoe but even in those days he was seen as a leader of cultural excellence telling tales, celebrating music and history and giving a warm Highland welcome to visitors
His family went on to restore a castle. open a cinema, a bookstore, a brewery and much affection and respect from all quarters.
A stone to his cairn.
MAXWELL MACLEOD
