{"id":1850378,"date":"2023-02-17T06:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T11:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850378"},"modified":"2023-02-17T06:58:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T11:58:41","slug":"trump-derides-scotlands-departing-left-separatist-leader-a-failed-woke-extremist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-derides-scotlands-departing-left-separatist-leader-a-failed-woke-extremist\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Derides Scotland\u2019s Departing Left-Separatist Leader: A \u201cFailed Woke Extremist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-derides-scotlands-departing-left-separatist-leader-a-failed-woke-extremist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850378&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1223806143-e1676541584616-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former U.S. President Donald Trump has hailed the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon, the left-separatist leader of his mother\u2019s native Scotland, as the welcome departure of a \u201cfailed woke extremist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.uk\/politics\/donald-trump-scolds-failed-woke-extremist-nicola-sturgeon-after-snp-leaders-resignation\/443043\">statement<\/a> provided to Brexit leader Nigel Farage for GB News, the former President did not mince words, beginning: \u201cGood riddance to failed woke extremist Nicola Sturgeon of Scotland!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis crazed leftist symbolises everything wrong with identity politics,\u201d Trump added, likely in reference to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2023\/02\/15\/trans-politics-casualty-woke-pushing-first-minister-sturgeon-resigns-as-support-evaporates\/\">scandal<\/a> surrounding her attempt to pass radical gender self-identification laws and the controversial transfer of a convicted double rapist to a women\u2019s prison after he began identifying as female following his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The Scottish Government once courted Trump for his strong Scottish roots and potential as an investor \u2014 particularly with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turnberry.co.uk\/\">Trump Turnberry<\/a> golf course, hotel, and spa on the Ayrshire coast \u2014 but relations began to sour under Sturgeon\u2019s Scottish National Party (SNP) when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/sep\/14\/donald-trump-plea-alex-salmond\">objected<\/a> to its obsession with \u201cugly\u201d wind farms, and broke down altogether when he ran for the U.S. presidency as an anti-mass migration populist, with Sturgeon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/scottish-news\/donald-trump-axed-scots-business-ambassador-1487478\">stripping him<\/a> of his status as a \u2018Global Scot\u2019.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trans Politics Casualty? Woke-Pushing First Minister Sturgeon Resigns as Support Evaporates <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xs7TaBwQIB\">https:\/\/t.co\/Xs7TaBwQIB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1625832026816368640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sturgeon made an arguably even more formidable foe in recent years in the form of <em>Harry Potter<\/em> author JK Rowling, who has lived in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh for much of her adult life, after she emerged as a strong critic of radical transgender ideology and, in particular, moves to make it easier for biological males to access hitherto women-only spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Controversy over Sturgeon making the promotion of so-called \u201cself-ID\u201d laws simplifying the process by which males are legally recognised as women her driving political purpose, alongside separating Scotland from the rest of the United Kingdom, boiled over when the British government made a rare use of its reserve powers to block Scottish self-ID legislation \u2014 an incident which was closely followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2023\/02\/11\/scottish-prisons-ditch-sturgeons-self-id-policy-after-trans-rapist-fiasco\/\">double rapist<\/a>\u00a0\u201cIsla Bryson\u201d (Adam Graham) being transferred to a Scottish women\u2019s prison, causing widespread uproar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Indeed, Nigel Farage has himself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2023\/02\/15\/farage-sturgeon-most-unpleasant-politician-ive-ever-met-resignation-a-victory-for-traditional-values\/\">said<\/a> that the lesson from Sturgeon\u2019s fall\u00a0\u201cis the pendulum can swing back, we can get victories for common sense,\u201d adding: \u201cWe can beat the radical left; we can beat\u00a0the woke loonies.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Farage also had harsh words for the First Minister, who he has met a number of times to debate issues such as Brexit \u2014 she notionally supports Scottish \u201cindependence\u201d but actually favours subjecting her country to EU rule \u2014 on a personal level, saying he found her very nasty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[H]aving met her on several occasions, debated against her, I\u2019ve got to tell you, I think she\u2019s just about the most unpleasant person I\u2019ve ever met in politics anywhere in the world,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Farage: Sturgeon \u2018Most Unpleasant Politician I\u2019ve Ever Met\u2019, Resignation a Victory for Traditional Values<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G1QwLBuMAV\">https:\/\/t.co\/G1QwLBuMAV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1625902900034646020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. President Donald Trump has hailed the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon, the left-separatist leader of his mother\u2019s native Scotland, as the welcome departure of a \u201cfailed woke extremist\u201d. 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