Trump Loses Battle To Stop Scotland Wind Farm

US presidential candidate Donald Trump has reacted with fury to comments from Alex Salmond that he is "three times a loser".

The Scottish National Party's Foreign Affairs spokesman made the remarks after learning Mr Trump had lost the third and final stage of his battle to stop an offshore wind farm being built near his Scottish golf course.

Mr Trump also received a stern rebuke from David Cameron in the Commons today, with the PM calling his recent comments about Muslims "divisive, stupid and wrong".

Speaking after being asked whether he supported a petition to ban Mr Trump from Britain, Mr Cameron said: " I think if he came to our country he would unite us all against him."

The Trump Organisation had argued the wind turbines would spoil the view from the the golf links at Menie Estate in Balmedie and threatened to halt further development of his project if the scheme went ahead.

But a panel of judges have sided with Scottish government ministers, who in 2013 approved the 11-turbine scheme off the Aberdeenshire coast.

The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) project predicts the venture will provide enough electricity to power 68,000 UK households over a year.

Speaking after the ruling, Mr Salmond accused Mr Trump of damaging Scotland's economy with his "unacceptable behaviour", saying the billionaire had "at best postponed and at worst jeopardised" the £200m economic benefits from the wind farm project.

The MP said: "As First Minister, I was cited in Trump's legal action. Now (NYSE: DNOW - news) that it is concluded, I am free to speak my mind on the damaging impact of his interventions on the Scottish economy.

"First (Other OTC: FSTC - news) , he has failed to meet the claims he made for the Menie estate golf complex.

"He has created a fine golf course but it does not even have a permanent clubhouse at present, far less the claims of thousands of jobs and billions of investment.

"He has submitted further plans this year but we are now seven years into the project with very slow progress.

"Second, by his unacceptable behaviour he has condemned Turnberry, one of the outstanding golf courses on the planet, and the scene of two of the greatest Open Championships since the war, to Open Championship oblivion."

A spokesman from The Trump Organisation said: "Does anyone care what this man thinks? He's a has-been and totally irrelevant.

"The fact that he doesn't even know what's going on in his own constituency says it all. We have a permanent clubhouse and the business is flourishing.

"He should go back to doing what he does best - unveiling pompous portraits of himself that pander to his already overinflated ego."

The Trump Organisation says it will evaluate the court's decision and "continue to fight" the proposal.