Donald Trump made his feelings clear over his proposed “world’s greatest golf course,” once again yesterday during a public inquiry in Aberdeen. He is a committed environmentalist.

He went on to claim that the planned $2 billion Scottish golf course is “a disgusting killing field.” and “is littered with hundreds of carcasses of birds and animals shot by hunters.”

The plant life, the habitat life, every aspect of life will be preserved and enhanced when we build this golf course.

Right now, that site is a killing ground for birds. The folks who want to save birds will be very happy with what I want to do.

When I build the golf course, they won’t be killing any birds.

We’ll be trying for birdies and eagles, but there will be no birds killed. We are not going to allow that to happen. So I would think that the bird protection people would embrace what I am doing.

It’s sort of disgusting, there are bird carcasses lying all over the site, there are dead animals all over the site that have been shot.

Maybe some people are into that - I’m not.

When you walk over the site, there is rubbish on the site, there is garbage on the site, there is dumping on the site.

The site is a mess. It’s a total mess and if we get approval, you won’t get that.

Martin Ford, the councilor who lost his committee chairmanship in the wake of the original decision to turn down the scheme accused the tycoon of showing “little understanding” of certain details of his application.

Trump responded by saying: “No one has ever told me I don’t know how to buy property before. I appreciate that.

Aberdeenshire Council rejected the plans for 2 golf courses, a four-hundred-plus-bedroom hotel, more than nine hundred vacation flats and numerous other buildings. But the Scottish government, presumably more amenable to “persuasion,” not actually having to live in the area, set up an inquiry into the matter. The usual course of events is to abide by the local council’s decision, but the Ministers will make the final decision.

A large variety of environmental groups oppose the plan as part of of the championship course would be built on sensitive sand dunes in a protected site of special scientific interest. The Scottish government’s chief reporter for public inquiries, James McCulloch, silenced the public benches when Trump’s claims to be an environmentalist brought a noisy response.

Trump’s response:

If I don’t get to build and create something magnificent, it would be a terrible, terrible blow to Scotland.

Which has to be one of my favorite quotes of the year. Mr Trump seemed to actually enjoy the inquiry and I suspect, that much like myself, he just likes a good argument.

It would also appear that Mr Trump has chosen to ignore warnings from his own paid consultant that the plans would be detrimental to the environment, reports the Sunday Herald.