It’s not the first time Donald Trump’s name has been aired on the Scottish election campaign trail.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the week, the first minister and SNP leader John Swinney declined a White House invitation to a banquet celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US.<\/p>\n
Now Zack Polanski wants Trump punished for his “illegal and unpopular wars.”<\/p>\n
He was asked – but didn’t spell out – how these sanctions might apply.<\/p>\n
The Trump team response was typically bombastic and Polanski’s deft barb back was an amusing retort.<\/p>\n
The Polanski position will be viewed as extreme fantasy by the other parties – but he also highlighted the instability in Nato.<\/p>\n
That part is uncomfortably real for the UK and Scottish governments – and they now have to deal with worsening economic conditions for their citizens caused by the conflict in Iran.<\/p>\n
The King will fly across the Atlantic next week to smooth relations with a man who could be characterised as a modern-day George Washington, railing against the British.<\/p>\n
However, Trump’s pristine golf courses will remain untouched by any revolutionaries this side of the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s not the first time Donald Trump’s name has been aired on the Scottish election campaign trail. Earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-548714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}