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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

‘America’s gone mad’: disbelief in Ayrshire, Scotland, near Trump’s golf course

Donald Trump gestures before microphones while wearing a white Maga cap, at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland
Donald Trump attends the opening of his Turnberry golf course in 2016. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

The sun is pressing through the low grey clouds above Turnberry beach in Ayrshire where Alan Ringrose is walking his dog. He shakes his head at the emerging news from across the Atlantic.

“I think America’s gone mad,” he says. “How can you elect a criminal as president?”

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