Reeling at the impertinence of the man

Sir, – I am still reeling with incredulous wonderment at the utter gall, not to say impertinent insolence, of Donald Trump’s piece of vanity displayed in his full page advertisement in the Courier, under the heading “Is this the future for Scotland?”

No, Mr Trump, it is the present in your country, which you appear to care little about as long as you are making money however and wherever you please.

You may have been able to see off the local government in Aberdeen to enable you to ride roughshod through a world-renowned site of special scientific interest, but hopefully, even you won’t have the means to get round the government of Scotland so easily.

I, too, do not like the effect on our beautiful country of marching armies of wind turbines, but I am aware of the world’s urgent need for incrementing sources of renewable energy and wish that a great deal more expense and effort would be put into developing tidal energy.

But carbon emissions would be helped a little if your home country wasn’t oblivious to their per capita creation of CO2 emissions, as evidenced by your extreme example of wan- dering around your empire in a jet all to yourself.

The only gratifying point about this ludicrous advertisement is that one mega vanity of little real use to the real world is ranting and raving like a spoilt child about another mega vanity who is equally well versed in weaving and dealing and is a master of obscuration.