Donald Trump has claimed the late James Bond star Sir Sean Connery "stepped in" to help him get planning permission in order to build a golf course in Scotland.
In tweets posted on Sunday, the US president paid tribute to the "legendary actor", a keen golfer who died on Saturday aged 90, adding that he had "past (sic) on to even greener fairways".
Calling the original 007 "quite a guy, and a tough character", Mr Trump said Sir Sean "stepped in and shouted, 'Let him build the damn thing'" when he was struggling to get planning permission for a controversial golf course at Turnberry.
Everything "went swimmingly from there", Mr Trump added, before wishing "sincere condolences" to Connery's family following the death of the "great actor".
Mr Trump posted the tweets about Connery's support just two days before the US presidential election, where he faces Democratic challenger Joe Biden, who leads him in the polls for the White House.
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Connery had not publicly confirmed the claim previously, but it is not the first time Mr Trump has said the screen legend helped him win approval for the development.
The pair did know each other and were photographed together at several events in New York in the early 2000s.
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