The Daily Mail published an exclusive speaking with a former bodyguard who protected Donald and Melania Trump when they were in Scotland. Kevin McKay worked for Trump for five years until he was fired in 2012. About Trump he says, “I thought he was an okay guy when I first started working for him but I guess that as we have all come to see, he is not a man of his word.” That is the least one can say.
Kevin, 50, revealed: ‘He still owes me money for McDonald’s He told me he would pay me back, but he never did.
‘For much of the time I was working for him, I kept thinking he would say, ”Kevin, here’s that money I owe you,” but it didn’t happen. […]
Kevin reveals he bought fast food for Trump in 2008 when the future President was heading to Aberdeen airport in northeast Scotland after visiting his beloved Trump International golf course.
The former bodyguard said: ‘We were driving from Mr. Trump’s estate and just as we got to the Bridge of Don, he asked to stop at McDonald’s so he could buy food for the flight back to New York.
‘We were in a convoy of six blacked out Range Rovers with about 15 men in suits inside, so there must have been some shocked expressions as we pulled up in the carpark.
‘Mr Trump didn’t have any UK currency – pounds – so he asked me if I could front him the cash.
‘I said, ”Sure” and took everyone’s order – about 20 cheeseburgers and fries with around 10 or 15 Coca Colas.
‘I think Mr Trump ordered two cheeseburgers with fries and a diet coke – that was his usual order and he always wanted McDonald’s to take with him on the private jet.
‘It cost me about £95 ($130 USD) in total and Mr Trump told me, ”You’ll get it back.”
‘It was a decent amount of money for me because I was earning about £2000 ($2700) a month working for Mr Trump.
‘I never heard about it again after that. I should have asked him for the money but I brushed it under the carpet at the time.’
The Trumps stiffing people while traveling is nothing new. Junior and Eric ran up a big bar tab in Ireland and sniffed the inn keeper. They finally got paid.
In his exclusive interview, Kevin tells for the first time how he witnessed Trump snapping at his wife, browbeating contractors and intimidating uncooperative landowners, while battling to keep his famous bouffant hair in shape in the fierce Scottish wind.
His time as his right hand man came during the chaotic early years when The Donald, now 74, was trying to build his dream golf course in Balmedie, Scotland, near his late mother Mary Anne MacLeod Trump’s birthplace on the Isle of Lewis.
Maybe Trump wanted to bury any Scottish relatives he might have on the golf course, like he did with Ivana.
‘He was all praises when we were introduced and said, ”I’ve heard a lot about you and the good work you’re doing.” He seemed like a really nice guy, pleasant and charming.’
Trump’s mood had turned sour by his second trip to Scotland, however, as a number of locals with property on the land earmarked for the golf course were refusing to sell up.
Kevin said: ‘Second time we met he said, ”I want you to give these m********* a hard time.”
‘He would tell us to flash our lights and press the horns on our cars right through the night just to get at one person.
‘It was because they wouldn’t sell to him but that’s their prerogative and I didn’t want to get involved. I told him: ”No, we are not going to do that.”
‘There was one time I was driving Mr. Trump across the estate when he pulled over and pointed at a property owned by a local man.
‘He told the contractor building the course, ‘I don’t like the look of that m********** house. I’ll give you £10,000 extra in your pocket to build trees all around that house.’
‘They put the trees up shortly afterwards and I heard through the grapevine that he had the cheek to hand the guy the bill for them. That’s the sort of man he is.’
And as for Melania, the bodyguard reports, ‘Melania stayed on the estate the whole time she was here and they seemed to get on well but, him being him, he was a bit snappy with her.
He’s always been like that. One morning she handed him a coffee and he snapped, ”I don’t want that, we’ll talk about this later.”
‘I don’t know if it was the coffee that was bothering him or something else. He didn’t argue with his wife in front of other people.’
Makes you wonder what was in the coffee, doesn’t it? Maybe she ground up his Adderall for him? Or Valium?
The bodyguard is an interesting chap in his own right. He says he was fired without reason in 2012. The Daily Mail reports, “Two years later he was jailed for four years for a £400,000 ($556,000) tax fraud (in 2014) and he was languishing in prison when Trump became President in 2017.” Sounds like he had more in common with Trump than one might expect. He also said this: ‘Now when I look back I wish I had never taken that job. I feel like the courts used me to prove a point – that they did not like Donald Trump. I wasted four years of my life for nothing.”
Again, he may have more in common with Trump than would meet the eye.
$556,000 tax fraud? Well, he didn’t incur that working for $2,700 a month! Methinks something’s a bit funny..
Ahh the Doonbeg visit – where he stiffed the Irish cops for a hundred grand (for snacks, etc)
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/doonbeg-resort-was-paid-100-000-to-feed-gardai-during-trump-s-visit-1.4033048
“…I wasted four years of my life for nothing.”
That’s the four years in prison. Don’t forget the wasted years when he worked for the Dotard.
2 Cheeseburgers with fries, and a DIET Coke??
I’ll never feel guilty again about ordering a large Latte with skim-milk and 2 Equal tabs, while at the same time taking advantage of my Bridge venue’s Coffee n Cake deal.
Remember all the tell all books about insiders from the Jimmy Carter administration. Then all the ones about how Obama stiffed people over McDonalds orders. No I don’t either. treat people like sh!t and this is what you get. It is how you treat the staff, etc how you will be remembered.
When did people become blind to his abysmal character? He doesn’t hide it. It says more about us than him. One person being depraved is one thing…millions celebrating depravity is a sick culture headed nowhere good. Vote!
On top.of everything else, he is a cheapskate. 100 grand may be nothing to him,but to ordinary seniors like myself and husband,that is not quite three years to live on.
When Ben worked at Wakmart, there was a guy driving a Ferrari who bought all his groceries there. And it wasn’t unusual.to see Mercedes and BMWs and Leaders in the parking lot. And the Ferrari guy was a rude @$$hole to boot.
We don’t hear much, well really anything, praiseworthy about former guy but not arguing with his spouse in front of others is actually kind of not too bad. One thing I hate to see is spouses arguing in public. It is embarrassing to the people around the couple and makes the couple look like citizens of some low class hooterville.
He’s still a p.o.s. so this observation of mine is quite surprising.