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On Nov. 1, 2020, a day after the passing of Scottish actor Sean Connery, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that Connery had been instrumental in helping him secure approval for a big development in Scotland: Which development Trump was referring to was uncertain. He had previously made a similar claim about being aided by the Scottish-born Connery in his 2014 purchase of the hotel and golf courses at the Turnberry golf resort on the Firth of Clyde in Ayrshire, southwest Scotland. In 2018, for example, while visiting the UK Trump was reported as saying, I met James Bond and I got all my approvals. James Bond was better than my approvals lawyer: In 2010, however, while Trump was promoting the future opening of Trump International Golf Links in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, he stated that Connery had been instrumental in securing approval for that project: The latter project, which was approved over the objections in local authorities in 2008, was certainly the more controversial of the two and required much more development work (since it did not involve the purchase of an existing facility): Which golf project Trump was making his claim about is unknown, as is just how and when Connery spoke up in a way that supposedly cleared the way for Trump to secure approval for it. The UK's Mirror newspaper stated in 2018 that There is no evidence to support his claim, and Scotland's The National noted just after Connery's death that There was no evidence to support Trump’s claim at the time, and although Connery was approached for comment, no response from the Scot was reported. The Guardian reported, in reference to the Trump International Golf Links project, that the rumor was definitely untrue: Connery, at least, was indeed passionate about golf, although he did not take it up until later in life, as he wrote in his 2008 book Being a Scot:
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