TRUMP Turnberry is beautiful. It’s a really stunning golf course. I don’t golf, but it makes me want to golf.
I know it’s beautiful because I was there when Trump opened it.
It was a very memorable day. I’d drove there at about 9am. I’d had very little sleep because I’d been covering the Scottish count for the EU referendum in Grangemouth and hand’t left until about 6am.
While all the other reporters on The National were mad busy working on the fall out of the Brexit vote, I was spending hours in Ayr waiting for Trump to turn up to cut his ribbon.
I was standing outside his clubhouse when David Cameron resigned.
I was eating a Trump Turnberry bacon sandwich when Nicola Sturgeon said a second independence referendum was highly likely.
A comedian threw a bunch of Nazi-themed golf balls covered in Swastikas all over the ninth green.
It was not a usual day.
Which is why I am vividly sure in myself that it was the day after the Brexit vote. But Trump is less sure.
Six times now he has publicly insisted that he was in Turnberry opening the golf course on the day before the EU referendum vote.
Six times he said he was here before Brexit and that he predicted Brexit.
That’s not true.
It’s not even as if he predicted Vote Leave would win the referendum the day after Brexit had won the referendum.
Because any fool can predict a thing that’s already happened.
But he was here and he welcomed the Brexit result.
Most of the questions from the press were about the Brexit referendum result.
What’s even madder is that his team are now doubling down,
When the BBC’s Jon Sopel pointed out that Trump was wrong, Stephanie Grisham, the White House Director of Communications for the First Lady tweeted: “He did. It actually is true. I was there. June 23.”
He didn’t. It actually isn’t true. I was there. June 24.
It’s bonkers. It’s not even a big thing. In the grand scheme of all the Trump craziness and lies, this one is tiny and miniscule. It wasn’t even the biggest lie in yesterday’s crazy press conference.
It’s just that it’s easily provable as not being accurate,
The President of the United States has said it six times now and surely the holder of that office wouldn’t make a simple mistake like that six times, would he?
What does it matter? Maybe as someone pointed out to me when I raised it on Twitter yesterday, it means I’m focusing on “disputed dates” and not on “undisputed missing children and his relentless racism, Islamophobic and xenophobia”. Maybe that’s the point.
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