Sean Connery helped me get Scottish plans approved, says Trump

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian


President claims Bond actor stepped in and told authorities ‘let him build the damn thing’

Martin Belam
Sun 1 Nov 2020 09.49 EST

Donald Trump has made the claim that Sean Connery assisted him in getting planning applications passed in Scotland. It was announced on Saturday the James Bond actor had died aged 90.

In a series of tweets, two days prior to the US election, Trump paid tribute to Connery, saying he was “highly regarded and respected in Scotland and beyond”.

But his claim that Connery stepped in and shouted “let him build the damn thing” in connection with a big development is likely to raise eyebrows in Scotland.

. . .

The pair did know each other. Connery and Trump were photographed together at several events in New York, including the Johnnie Walker Dressed to Kilt fashion show in the early 2000s.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/01/sean-connery-help-donald-trump-scotland-planning-permission

[Turbineguy]

1. That's nice.

I wonder why he didn't mention it when Connery was still living?

[noneof_theabove]

19. dead men don't tell lies

[groundloop]

20. Dead men don't correct lies

[iluvtennis]

2. trump is such a cretin...always trying to steal news cycles that were for someone else. nt

[2naSalit]

13. I heard someone say...

In the past few days,

"He has to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral."

[iluvtennis]

16. LOL....exactly. he is pathetic. nt

[2naSalit]

17. That's all he's about.

Seriously pathetic.

[Escurumbele]

21. That is actually a quote from one of Theodore Roosevelt Jr children about him, it was complementary

And she said it because Teddy was always the life of the party, and it didn't matter what kind of a party it was. People welcomed him, people loved him, I don't think that is the same with trump buffoon. Plus, lets face it, when is he the life of anything?

As a matter of fact, trump's rage with the New York elite is because they despise him, they know he is a fool with no class, so he was never invited anywhere.

[Evolve Dammit]

38. Such a shallow, insecure whipped puppy craving adulation. You are correct. Paranoid as hell, too.

[sfstaxprep]

3. It's ALL About Fucking HIM!!

He wouldn't have even mentioned Sean if not for the fact he had a story he was able to tell that shows he knew this legend.

[not_the_one]

24. Sean Connery IS a legend. The turd isn't, wasn't, and never will be.

His name will be synonymous with EPIC LOSER, EPIC CON MAN, and EPIC TRAITOR.

[Lock him up.]

34. The orange mob$teR will be a legend in History books more than Al Capone is.

Like for No.1 mass-murderer of over a quarter-of-a-million or probably even much more of fellow citizens deaths.

LOCK.HIM.UP

[SharonClark]

4. It's always about him.

Paraphrasing Alice Roosevelt Longworth's quote about her father...

He always wants to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

[Botany]

5. "The legendary actor, 007 Sean Connery, has past on to even greener fairways."

past on????

These two words, past and passed, are two words that cause a lot of confusion in the English language. Past is never used as a verb, that is a good way to remember the difference. Passed is always a verb.

https://www.oxfordinternationalenglish.com/passed-vs-past-whats-the-difference/

[Beartracks]

46. Ironically, passed is past tense. And another observation...

... The past has passed.



=========

[highplainsdem]

6. Unless Trump made this claim publicly enough that Connery would have heard about it and been able to

confirm or deny it while he was alive, I would NOT believe it.

[olddad65]

7. Do you think our president would tell a lie?

[Escurumbele]

23. I don't think trump would lie more than 27,000 times...

There is a limit to everything....only kidding, he has no limit for lying, it comes so natural to him that it is an open mouth, lie kind of thing.

[kiri]

8. Passed is ugly. a perfectly good verb: to die

Passed is ugly. We have a perfectly good verb: he died. After dying, one is dead.

This "passed on" stuff is suggesting an afterlife to which one goes. It is theological dogma. Let us be real. Living things die.

When my lupines died, they did not pass on.

[demigoddess]

37. yes,you die but I have had enough experience with those who have died that I think

there is something afterwards.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Gee, wonder why he couldn't do this while the man was still alive

Prepare for a parade of dead people endorsing Trump

[hadEnuf]

10. Trump is a desperate, demented liar.

It's doubtful that Connery would have concerned himself with a piss-ant like Trump.

[tanyev]

11. The absolute only thing that defines a good or bad person for Donald Trump

is whether or not they’ve done something for him.

[PatSeg]

12. Someone dies

and Trump turns it into a political advantage. He couldn't just send his condolences, he had to make the loss about him, always about him. Not to mention, it is undoubtedly a flat out lie.

[Orrex]

14. It will be a wonderful day when Trump is reunited with his good friend Connery.

[MFM008]

15. You cant believe

ANYTHING maggot says.
I heard Connery compared him to a pig.
Maggot would try to horn in on the death of a
Cinema "tough" guy.
Sorry.
Dont believe it.

[louis-t]

18. Those Scottish courses lose about a million per year. Each.

That's just an average. Sometimes they lose more. Scotland HATES dum dum.

[NCjack]

42. They are Russian washing machines.

[louis-t]

43. This is the way we wash our money...wash our money

wash our money...

[MustLoveBeagles]

22. What a fucking liar dump is

Why couldn't he have died instead of Sean Connery?

RIP 007

[bdamomma]

28. exactly

nt

[marble falls]

25. Do not believe it for a moment.

[bdamomma]

26. tRump

he is totally delusional.

Jealous much, you POS.

[Botany]

29. So you don't think that Sean Connery helped Trump get a good deal on golf course in Scotland?

n/t

[bdamomma]

30. no

Why should Sean Connery help a con man???

[Botany]

31. The whole idea is just too stupid from the get go.

Christ does he really expect us to believe that hot mess 'O lies?

[robleb]

32. 2 things

1. of course Sir Sean Connery's death is ALL ABOUT dTrump.
2. why would anyone believe what dTrump claims at this point.

[Cha]

33. I need proof

[Harker]

35. He's lying. It's what he does.

Here's the antidote...

[DinahMoeHum]

36. I call BS. What a lying "cockwomble", as the Scots would say. . .

If there were an Olympic event for insults, the Scots would contend for the gold medal.

This is a clip from Samantha Bee's Full Frontal back in 2016, featuring Scottish actor David Tennant:

https://www.thecut.com/2017/02/how-to-insult-donald-trump-with-linguistics.html

[Harker]

39. A fine way with words.

The three-parters, especially.

[Brainfodder]

40. Get away from my favorite Bond, he's still warm, Thunderball?

[Maeve]

41. From further down in that article---"utter bollocks"

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/01/sean-connery-help-donald-trump-scotland-planning-permission

David Milne, a near neighbour of the Trump golf course in Scotland, and the US president’s most vocal local critic, said the claim that Connery helped him land planning permission for his golf resort was “utter bollocks”.

Milne said Connery had never played the course, despite Trump’s invites.

But Martin Ford, the Aberdeenshire councillor who was chair of the planning committee that initially refused Trump’s application to build the resort, told the Guardian: “Mr Connery was not involved in the due process that led to the granting of planning permission for a golf resort at Menie. He did not submit a letter of representation to the council, appear at the planning hearing, or at the public local inquiry.”


Ford added: “Opinions offered in press articles are not material considerations in decisions on planning applications.”

Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond said: “Scotland and much of the world is mourning the loss of a great spirit. Sean Connery’s contribution and life’s work was immense, real and lasting and everyone with an ounce of class is reflecting upon just that today. Tributes are great from all sources but this is not a time for tweeting silly claims or indeed responding to them.”

[Mr. Ected]

44. Bullshit. Connery's wife said he had suffered from dementia for some time before he passed

Trump's imagination becoming arguable fact before your very eyes again.

[Eugene]

45. Headline changed at link: Trump's boasts of help from Sean Connery fall apart

Positively shocking: Trump's boasts of help from Sean Connery fall apart

It was less licence to kill and more dramatic licence. Donald Trump’s claim that the late Sean Connery assisted him in getting planning applications passed in Scotland fell apart quickly on Sunday when the chair of the planning committee said the James Bond star was not involved.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/01/sean-connery-help-donald-trump-scotland-planning-permission