The Trump Organisation has described the Menie Estate locals featured in an Angus film-maker’s movie on the billionaire as ”a national embarrassment for Scotland”.
The billionaire’s firm hit out as You’ve Been Trumped won yet another award this time in Donald Trump’s backyard at the star-studded Hamptons International Film Festival.
On Wednesday night in New York Baxter was presented with the Victor Rabinowitz and Joanne Grant Award for Social Justice Award by festival programming manager Cameron Yates.
The award, named after one of America’s most famous civil rights lawyers, is given to ”a film that most exhibits the values of peace, equality and global justice”.
Baxter also appeared on a special panel about Documentary Filmmakers Taking on Power at the Paley Centre on Thursday evening.
But George Sorial, director of international development at the Trump Organisation, blasted the 95-minute feature completed by Anthony Baxter’s independent production company Montrose Pictures.
He said: ”Anthony Baxter’s film is a complete fraud. The film only presents the myopic views of a very small fringe element that are not respected and are widely regarded as a national embarrassment for Scotland.”
You’ve Been Trumped, which studies the build-up to work on Mr Trump’s golf course at the Menie Estate, has been praised by Michael Moore, who handpicked the film for his festival in Michigan.
In the UK You’ve Been Trumped won the top environmental award for documentary films for exposing, in the words of the international jury, ”one of the most shocking environmental crimes in UK history”.