#property barons

Donald Trump’s father was German, but his mother was a MacLeod from the Isle of Lewis. She was born there to a large family in 1912. They lived in a one-room cottage. Trump’s “ancestors suffered in ‘The Clearances’ – a tragic, decades-long period of upheaval in Scotland, during which greedy landlords forced families from their homes”– and many locals view him as “the antithesis of Lewis’ collective history.” According to researchers:

The distrust of property barons and the fear of losing one’s home runs deep on the island, permeating the residents’ collective conscience. “I think people to this day in the Highlands and islands have a deeply skeptical attitude to landlordism,” says Maclean. “It has a very negative history in this part of the world."Yet today, Trump lives by the very trade that saw his family and hundreds of thousands of other Scots uprooted, thrown from their humble homes often with just the clothes on their backs, forced to start over. Trump could not have turned his back on those roots more if he had tried.