Govt. Watchdog: Trump Golf Course "Destroyed" Dunes; Scottish Protesters Heckle Trump On Golf Course
CABRERA: Those are protesters heckling President Trump as he was playing golf at his Turnberry resort in Scotland today. And there you see him in the white hat. You can also see a line of Scottish police there at the bottom of your screen. Now others have gone to great lengths to let him know exactly how they feel. A paragliding protester apparently from Green Peace who surprisingly close to the President also during his visit to Turnberry. He carried a banner that read Trump well below par hashtag resist. And he managed to get away after that stunt. CNN White House correspondent Abby Philip joining us from Glasgow, Scotland. Abby, in addition to the protesters there at Turnberry, there is also controversy involving Trump's other golf course in Scotland?</s>ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Ana. As the President's affinity for Scotland days back year and it prompted him to buy not one but two beautiful coastal golf courses here. And he may be the first half-Scottish President. But that hasn't meant that he hasn't been controversial. Now that he is the most powerful man on earth, many in his mother's home country have changed their view of him over the years.</s>DAVID MILNE, ABERDEEN RESIDENT: The view behind me is the best part of 40 miles of natural Scottish coastland.</s>PHILLIP (voice-over): In Aberdeen, miles of untouched beaches and pristine Scottish sand as far as the eye can see.</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Hello, everybody.</s>PHILLIP: Until Donald Trump moved in next door in 2006.</s>MILNE: What do we have dumped in the middle of it? An artificial landscape by an American who doesn't care what he destroys in the process. It doesn't fit. It is not necessary. We don't want it here.</s>PHILLIP: It's not exactly the welcome a half Scottish president might expect.</s>TRUMP: My mother was born in Scotland and stoned away. She loved Scotland.</s>PHILLIP: President Trump making a golf detour to a different Scotland course on his visit to the U.K. Amid a mountain of controversy and protests. Locals like David Milne have battled with the Trump organization for years over the course in Aberdeen. When Trump bought the beachfront land next door, he pressured Mine to sell calling his house and other ugly and a slab. Mine refused.</s>MILNE: It almost like a practice run for this presidency. He is doing the it exact same thing internationally as he tried to do here. He failed here.</s>PHILLIP: Then Trump built a fence around known's property and sent him the bill. So he put up a Mexican flag in protest.</s>MILNE: Anyone who disagrees with him is seen as an idiot, a fool.</s>PHILLIP: The disputes don't end there. The Scottish government eventually won a year's long dispute with Trump over putting windmills along the coast cline. And a colleges lament that Trump's manicured golf course has ruin the once protected sand on the Scottish coastline. Back in the U.S., ethics watchdogs ringing the alarm, as Trump marks more than 120 visits to a Trump golf course since becoming president.</s>WALTER SHAUB, FORMER DIRECTOR, U.S. OFFICE OF THE GOVT. ETHICS: This detour to his Scotland property is really disturbing. Because it's yet one more advertisement for his properties. Every one of these trips is not only an advertisement, but it's a taxpayer funded advertisement.</s>PHILLIP: Trump claimed he handed over his businesses to his sons when he became president. But that hasn't stopped him from making Trump organization properties in the U.S., the second and third homes. Amid rising unpopularity in the U.K. and in Scotland, some Trump backers here are undeterred.</s>VIC ANDERSON, GROUNDS WORKER, ABERDEEN GOLF COURSE: It was</s>PHILLIP: Vic Anderson, a former grounds worker at the Aberdeen Golf Course counts Trump as a boon for his town. He's been good for this community?</s>ANDERSON: Absolutely, absolutely.</s>PHILLIP: And that hasn't gone unnoticed.</s>ANDERSON: With friends like you, Trump International golf links will soon become our greatest achievement.</s>PHILLIP: And President Trump did take time away this weekend to visit his golf course and play golf on that range. And the protests that we saw there this weekend really highlight that the president's controversiality (ph) in Scotland isn't just about the golf course. It's his also about his policies. Some seventy-nine percent of Scots have an unfavorable view of him, according to a recent poll. And it seems very much that that is not changing anytime soon. Ana.</s>ANA CABRERA, CNN HOST: Abby Phillip, thank you for that report. Coming up, Paul Manafort's new reality. The so-called VIP treatment he lost after being moved to a new jail before his upcoming trial.