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EPISODE · Jul 18, 2025 · 10 MIN

Trump's Scottish heritage doesn't make him Scotland's favourite son

from Saturday Extra - Separate stories podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Donald Trump’s mother Mary Anne MacLeod was born on the Hebridean island of Lewis. Like many islanders of her time she headed as a young woman across the Atlantic where she met and married Fred Trump.The US President is expected to make a private visit to his ancestral home this month to visit his golf course on Scotland's east coast.In Aberdeenshire there’s a long history of dispute between the President and the locals about his controversial golf courses and his will to rid the Scottish horizon of off-shore wind farms. 

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