If there's one thing Scotland doesn't need, there are more golf courses.
God, the golf course is everywhere.
And all this business, this is going to be the best golf course in the world,
or he's going to build two golf courses just for good measure.
They're going to be the best in the world.
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
David Kennedy, who's David Kennedy?
I don't know David Kennedy.
I thought, well, thank God for that.
I'd be worried if a fellow like John Newby.
A lot of people said to me, oh, it must be awful to you.
Awful to you having given so much of your life to Robert Gordon's, which is true.
It must be awful to you to now have to give back your honorary degree,
which you earned and worked for so much.
I don't know, it's not really this problem.
Kennedy's prerogative to do that is his honorary degree, and if he feels very strongly about the issue,
then of course, you know, it's his right to do with the degree that he's been awarded.
And clearly people will use different ways of making their own protests on issues they feel very strongly.
I guess I feel it's a shame, isn't it?
Because obviously, you know, he'd worked so hard at the university, and RGU is such a successful institution
that he felt that he didn't want to continue to hold his honorary degree.
And I can also understand where RGU are coming from,
and they want to clearly build links with local, important local developments and businesses.
And RGU's got a crucial on our community.
So I don't think it's an easy issue.
There's lots of complicated issues within it.
But at the end of the day, you know, David Kennedy must have the right to do his degree.
It's too right, to actually, I mean, it's a distinguished academic,
and given it to, given the protest against Donald Trump,
who really had, I mean, spent his time throwing people out of the houses all over the world.
In fact, why should he get, that way he's getting his doctorate ship for?
Good on Dr. Kennedy.
Brilliant, good for him.
I think that was a pointless thing to do, really.
I think most people favour the Trump proposal.
I mean, I do myself, but I hope he does fully implement it,
and not sort of bail out some partially along the line,
because I've heard that in some other countries where he's done things,
he's completed it to certain points, and then bailed out,
because he's going to make money anyway.
So I hope he fully implement it.
There'll be, there'll be, there'll be exclusive to usual.
Capitalism, sorry.
I don't know, I don't know, nutshell.
It's just money, money, money, money.
It probably bought his degree.
It's a free country, and everyone has the right to protest,
and I think we should.
I've spoken to a number of people who have said,
you know what, I've only got one vote, it won't make a difference, I can't make a change,
and fundamentally it is that one vote,
and it is that one vote will always make a change.
There were three criteria for honorary degrees.
First of all, they had to be honourable people,
because without saying, you can't give an honorary degree to somebody that's not honourable.
Secondly, they had to have an achievement that was widely recognised in society.
And thirdly, and very importantly, what is it that mattered to me?
Students, they had to be a good role model for students.
You're fired, you're fired, you're fired.
There's my hair okay, there's some fixed.
The no-die wealth will be created,
but it's being created not to keep it here in the northeast.
Mr. Trumper, if he's investing 750 million pounds,
he'll be taken out at least two or three times that, because that's what people do.
You don't make an investment, I'll leave it there.
You take it out, you take the money away.
So my prediction is that, you know, the northeast will end up,
Mr. Trumper will be richer,
and maybe want to do others who will be richer.
I wouldn't dispute that, but the vast majority in the northeast
will be no richer because of Mr. Trumper.
These people want Mr. Trumper to come to Aberdeen,
and they want to show that he's very welcome.
And so they put Mr. Trumper forward for an honorary degree,
and they use their influence and pressure to ensure that Mr. Trumper is given an honorary degree.
Mr. Trumper has achieved nothing in this country.
He's achieved nothing.
I don't believe he's an honorable man personally, but I mean, that's a good point.
Why, you might say to me, why do you say that?
I don't know Mr. Trumper, I've never met Mr. Trumper.
I can go on to the internet, and if you look at Mr. Trumper on the internet,
you'll find all the things that Mr. Trumper says about himself.
The things he says about himself, what he says about himself is,
you cannot be too greedy.
That's what he says.
You cannot be too greedy.
In other words, he's that sort of man, always wanting it more and more and more,
never satisfied, you can't be too greedy.
That person is anathema to me.
He talks about, he boasts about sacking people,
which, I mean, I've had to sack people, but I did it with a great deal of sorrow,
and it was forced.
I mean, nobody would take pleasure out of sacking other human beings.
I mean, sometimes you've got to do it, but I mean, you don't take pleasure out of it.
So, I mean, I find that all absolutely incredible that, you know,
so how, when you look at the things Mr. Trumper said about himself,
how anybody could come to the conclusion,
this was a man that was a suitable role model for students.
Well, I dread the thing of students coming out and using him as a role model.
I think this is what God's name is Scotland going to be like in another 10 or 20 years' time,
and we are going to produce 10,000 Mr. Trumps.
Oh, I can't believe that it's...
You know, what hurts me is that my colleagues could behave in the way that they did.
After all that we've gone through, I would have hoped that they, too, would have shared something.
They seemed to share something with me, and I'm sorry that I would have been a happy man
if somebody said to me, you know what, every one of your colleagues voted against Trumper getting an honorary degree,
and I would have said, hooray, great, I've succeeded,
and the fact that they didn't do that hurts me more than a piece of paper.
Thank you.
