Donald Trump has phone call with the First Minister of Scotland who called him 'deeply abhorrent', Nicola Sturgeon, to discuss' long-standing relationship between Scotland and the US' – and he phoned HER!Â
- President-elect discussed 'long-standing relationship between Scotland and US'
- Scottish Government said Trump and Nicola Sturgeon had phone conversation
- Scotland's First Minister then went on to congratulate Trump on his election win
The President Elect of the United States called the First Minister of Scotland today for a 'brief introductory conversation'. Â
Donald Trump discussed the 'long-standing relationship between Scotland and the United States' in a phone call with Nicola Sturgeon - who had made clear her support for Hillary Clinton during the American presidential election campaign.
But Scotland's First Minister went on to congratulate Trump on his election win and 'express her belief in the values Scotland and the United States share'.
Nicola Sturgeon and Trump enjoyed a discussion about the shared values between their countries
The tycoon owns two major golf courses in Scotland, where his mother was born
The Scottish Government said the pair discussed the relationship between their two countries during a telephone conversation this morning.  Â
Their chat comes after the SNP First Minister warned Trump about 'equality, diversity, tolerance'.
The SNP First Minister had previously slammed the tycoon as 'deeply abhorrent' and warned his election would not reduce her to 'diplomatic silence' about racism or misogyny.
But in her formal response to the shock election results, Ms Sturgeon wrote she hoped Mr Trump's ties with Scotland could be 'strengthened'.Â
The First Minister, who last year stripped Mr Trump of his role as a business ambassador for Scotland, has faced questions over how her criticism of the president-elect could impact on Scotland following his election victory. Â
Trump at the opening of The Trump International Golf Links Course in 2012 in Balmedie, Scotland
The SNP First Minister had previously slammed the tycoon as 'deeply abhorrent'
Donald Trump has long made clear his connection with Scotland - where he owns two major golf courses, including a controversial one he set up in Aberdeenshire.
His mother Mary Anne Trump (nee MacLeod), who died in 2000 aged 88, was born in Scotland.  Â
The youngest child of a family of ten, Mary Anne MacLeod was born in 1912, in the small village of Tong on the Isle of Lewis. Her family were ex-crofters and her father worked as a fisherman, but the island's economy was destroyed by the huge loss of local men in World War I.
Economic necessity drove her to follow three of her sisters and start a new life in the U.S. Mary, whose first language was Gaelic, took the SS Transylvania from Glasgow to New York in 1930.
In 2006, the tycoon bought Menie Estate, a 600-hectare property just north of Aberdeen - planning to transform it into a world-class golf resort.
The President Elect of the United States Donald Trump called the First Minister of Scotland today
However, local landowners and environmentalists campaigned fiercely against the development - claiming it would wreck the landscape.
Despite the protests, the Republican was eventually granted permission to build a course on the site.
Earlier this year, Mr Trump credited his battle with the people of Aberdeenshire with preparing him to be voted in as the next president of the United States.Â
And last year, Mr Trump blasted the Scottish Government as 'small-minded and parachial' and labelled Alex Salmond a 'has been' after he lost a legal battle against an offshore wind farm being built in the view from his Menie Estate golf resort in 2014.
The tycoon at Trump Turnberry Golf Course and Resort in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 2014
The tycoon had wanted to block plans for an 11-turbine scheme in the bay near the site.Â
However when he visited Turnberry in June, Mr Trump was asked about the prospect of Scottish independence and said: ''I'll leave it up to the people.
'I love the people of Scotland. That is why I built, in Aberdeen, one of the great golf courses in the world.
'I've gotten to know the people of Scotland so well through my mother and everything else.
'The people of Scotland are amazing people and that question really has to be addressed to the people.
'It was a very, very close vote (in 2014) and I don't know that people want to go through that again.
'I was here when people were going through that vote.
'I didn't take sides but I will tell you it was a nasty period, and I can't imagine they would go through that again, but the people of Scotland may speak differently.'Â
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