Trump Gives Sean Connery Impression While Discussing His Family’s Scottish Ancestry

Trump: “My mother was born in Scotland. She loves Scotland. You know, when she came to New York, she was a young girl of about 18 years old, and she came to New York and she hadn’t seen the world, and she met my father. And he was, you know, a successful guy. He was a young guy, but he was a successful guy, doing well. He was building houses.”

DEVINE: “And she was beautiful.”

Trump: “And she was beautiful. She really was beautiful. She was a beautiful woman. And he came home that night, he said, I’ve just — to my grandmother, who was a fantastic person, my father’s mother. He said, well, I just met my wife.”

DEVINE: “Really?”

Trump: “And he was about 32, so he was a little older. She said, you know, when are you going to get married? But he was — he was a great guy. But he immediately knew. There’s a great — you know, the Scottish people are really amazing. And they’re great fighters, too. You know, they — that’s why England sort of never —“

DEVINE: “Yeah, Braveheart.”

Trump: “Braveheart, one of the great movies of all time. But England had a hard time with Scotland.”

DEVINE: “Yeah.”

Trump: “They just — they couldn’t quite tame them.”

DEVINE: “And you’re opening a new golf course in your mother’s name.”

Trump: “Yeah. We started it a couple of years ago. And it’s a very beautiful, beautiful piece of land. And it’s going to be very good. I have a course there and I had to start this within a certain period of time or I’d lost the zoning. And Sean Connery got me the zoning.”

DEVINE: “Yeah, what did he do?”

Trump: “So, Sean Connery, I didn’t know him well. I met him one time, but he liked me. I liked him and, you know, and he’s a tough kind of a guy, as you probably know. If you look at the Barbara Walters interview, you know what I’m talking about. But he was a tough guy and beloved in Scotland. And, you know, he was the first James Bond and all of the things. And it was very tough zoning environmentally here to get that approved. And when they approved it, they approved two courses, but I had to start the second one within 10 years from the first, etcetera, etcetera. So, if I didn’t start it, let’s say, two years ago, we would have lost that right, you’d never get it back. But, Sean Connery, it was very hard getting the zoning because of the environment and it was very highly protected and all. It’s called SSSI. And he let out a howl once. He said ‘let the bloody bloke build this damn golf courses and let him put money into our country. What’s wrong with you?’ And as soon as he said that, the whole thing got approved, like, so fast, it was crazy.”