AMERICA’S man in London has blamed Scotland for Donald Trump.

Speaking this morning in an interview about the President's "working visit" to the UK on July 13, US ambassador Woody Johnson claimed the tycoon turned politician's temperament was to do with his mother’s people - Mary Anne McLeod hailed from Tong, on the Isle of Lewis, emigrating to New York when she was 18.

The Scots, Johnson told LBC radio, were “tough and argumentative”.

“All the things he brings to the table to the American people come from Scotland,” he added.

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That hasn't gone down so well with many Scots, though there is a long and proud history of people north of the border getting into arguments with Trump, most notably those living beside his golf course in the north east.

Quarry worker Michael Forbes has clashed often with the Trump family. The billionaire wanted the local out of his house which sits close to the Trump International golf course in Balmedie.

Trump called Forbes’s land “disgusting,” later saying accusing the man of living "in a pig-like atmosphere.”

But despite offers of cash, threats of legal action, and cutting off his water supply, Forbes, his wife and his mum remain where they are.

Forbes, for his resistance to Trump, was named “Scot of the year” at the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards, and in 2016 he flew a “Hillary for president” flag from his land.

The threat of protests is believed to why the Americans have postponed the full formal state visit, which Theresa May offered in January last year when she became the first foreign leader to meet Trump in the White House.

The working visit will be less public, and won't involve the New Yorker riding in a horse drawn carriage down the mall with the Queen.

That, however, won't stop people making their feelings known.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said Trump’s visit to the UK’s capital would allow him to “see that Londoners hold their liberal values of freedom of speech very dear.”

Scottish Greens co-convenor Patrick Harvie, who was once accused of blasphemy by Trump, told protesters to “get ready.”

“The Scottish Greens, joined by many others, will ensure that any Trump visit here is met with a level of protest not seen since the Iraq war,” he said. “We will send a clear message that his pathetic brand of hatred is not welcome here.”

But Johnson claimed the notoriously thin-skinned President was “very thick-skinned” and would not be bothered by protests.

“He knows what he wants to do and he speaks in a very clear and unusual way from most politicians.

“Most politicians don’t weigh it out the way he does and so he is going to get a lot of criticism for that as people interpret where he is taking everything. But I think in the end, people are starting to, even now, realise that where he is going is a good direction.”

The ambassador said Trump would want to meet the Queen.

“I think he really wants to meet the Queen. I think he has a really positive view, he knows that the value added of the royal family and what they bring to the table is enormous. You can really see it from an American perspective maybe even clearer than you can see it here.”

In a bid to try and make it harder for protests, some super keen Tory Trump fans urged the President to avoid going to London and just visit Scotland instead.

In a letter from conservative think tanks the Bow Group, Bruges Group, Parliament Street and the Freedom Association, as well as the chairman of Republicans Overseas Scotland and a contributor to ThinkScotland, the president is told people outside London “strongly support” his leadership.

“Your ancestral homeland of Scotland represents a powerful bond between you and Britain, and given the nature of the climate in London, it is a superior destination,” they said. “As you know, the Royal Estate of Balmoral Castle sits in Scotland’s Cairgorms National Park, thus allowing you to make a full state visit as the guest of the Her Majesty the Queen. Scotland and the north of England also offer a variety of locations where you would be able to speak directly to ordinary British people and witness the true level of support that exists for you and the special relationship between the US and the UK.”

Ben Harris-Quinney, chairman of the Bow Group, said: “A visit to London by the president is likely to draw major protests, crime and disorder, and we do not wish to see Britain or President Trump embarrassed by this.”