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Former President Donald J. Trump has said he hopes the United Kingdom will not break up, recalling how Scotland came close to leaving the Union in 2014. He made the comments during a conversation with Andrew Schulz, a comedian and podcaster who, like the former president, has a Scottish mother.
“I tell you what, England fought them for a thousand years trying to get ’em under tow—they couldn’t do it,” Trump said, saying his mother, Mary, from Scotland’s Western Isles, exemplified this national toughness.
Praising Mel Gibson‘s performance as Scottish independence leader Sir William Wallace in Braveheart, Trump recalled how even the Romans built walls—Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall—because they were “afraid” of the Scots, saying, “The Scottish people, they’re tough people, they’re good people, actually they’re very great people, [and] they’re good fighters.”
He noted his mother was a great admirer of the late Queen Elizabeth II and that terminating the United Kingdom would be “a hard breakup.”
“You know they tried to break up Scotland from the rest of the Empire, so to speak,” he said of the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence. “I hope it stays together; I hope it always stays together,” he added.
Despite being bigger by size and population, Trump noted that England could never subdue Scotland by force and that the two kingdoms eventually “married.”
James VI, King of Scots, became James I of England as well on the death of Elizabeth I in 1603—the Union of the Crowns. King James played a prominent role in the early settlement of the Americas, and the Scottish and English kingdoms—including Wales and Ireland as de facto dependencies of the English crown—agreed to a full political union in 1707, forming the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Yerr we got Trump on the pod today to break down his stance on abortion, who he really thinks tried to take him out, and his FAVORITE African – American. INDULGE! @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/pP7DzctXwt
— Andrew Schulz 👑HEZI (@andrewschulz) October 9, 2024
