It’s a very long way from the remote pebble-dashed crofts of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland to the palatial splendour of the White House in Washington for Donald Trump. Yet Donald Trump’s family has embraced both these aspects on his thorny, often controversial and noisy journey from entrepreneur to becoming US president. And, whatever one’s views of the man who has just been re-elected to the Oval Office, it’s impossible to dismiss his many links to Scotland, dating back nearly 100 years.
Donald Trump’s Scotland roots are in the Western Isles , who was raised in a Gaelic-speaking household in Tong, on the Isle of Lewis, made the sort of rags-to-riches story one would expect to find in a Hollywood film script. , and worked as a domestic servant on Long Island for four years, witnessed genuine poverty during the worst days of the Great Depression. She was fixated by the American Dream But her experiences as an immigrant – one of the many ironic twists in the Trump family story – led to her becoming an ardent believer in the American Dream.
And when she met and married businessman Fred Trump in 1936, it was the start of a family dynasty which led all the way to the highest echelons of US society. As a parent, Mary was more reserved than her husband, but she poured herself into philanthropic work and was renowned for her elaborate hairstyle, which was described in one account as “a dynamic orange swirl”. This later became connected with her son, Donald, who lat.