Donald Trump reacted with joy to the news that Nicola Sturgeon was quitting as Scottish First Minister yesterday.
The outspoken former US President issued a statement after the Scottish First Minister's dramatic announcement that she is stepping down, insisting that Scots would be "much better off" without Ms Sturgeon in the top job, the Daily Express reports.
Mr Trump hit out at the "woke" SNP leader's controversial gender reforms, which have sparked a major row in recent months.
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He also fumed that Ms Sturgeon "fought me all the way" over his golf courses in Scotland.
In a statement, Mr Trump said: "Good riddance to failed woke extremist Nicola Sturgeon of Scotland!
"This crazed leftist symbolises everything wrong with identity politics.
"Sturgeon thought it was OK to put a biological man in a women’s prison, and if that wasn’t bad enough, Sturgeon fought for a 'Gender Recognition Reform Bill' that would have allowed 16-year-old children to change their gender without medical advice.
"I built the greatest golf properties in the world in Scotland, but she fought me all the way, making my job much more difficult.
"The wonderful people of Scotland are much better off without Sturgeon in office!"
Ms Sturgeon announced her shock resignation after eight years in office in a hastily-organised press conference at Bute House in Edinburgh yesterday morning.
The SNP leader said "the time is now" and denied she was reacting to "short-term pressures" after a series of political setbacks.
She said: "In my head and in my heart I know that time is now. That it's right for me, for my party and my country."
Ms Sturgeon acknowledged the "physical and mental impact" of the top job.
She said: "If the question is: can I battle on for another few months? Then the answer is yes, of course I can.
"Since my very first moments in the job I have believed a part of serving well would be to know almost instinctively when the time is right to make way for someone else.
"But if the question is: can I give this job everything it demands and deserves for another year, let alone for the remainder of this parliamentary term, give it every ounce of energy that it needs in the way that I have strived to do every day for the last eight years? The answer honestly is different."
She will leave office as the longest-serving and first female First Minister since the creation of the Scottish Parliament - however her real dream of achieving Scottish independence is still out of reach.
She has suffered a string of political challenges in recent months as her Government sought to push through gender reforms, only for them to be blocked by Westminster.
The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill would allow trans people to obtain a gender recognition certificate (GRC) without the need for a medical diagnosis and enabling 16 and 17-year-olds to apply for such a certificate for the first time, as well as reducing the amount of time a person has to live in their acquired gender before they can be granted the document.
Ms Sturgeon insisted the row surrounding a transgender double rapist being sent to a women's jail "wasn't the final straw", but said it is "time for someone else" to lead the party.
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