Former US president Donald Trump has slammed Scotland's first minister after she quit as head of the devolved region.
Scottish National Party (SNP) Sturgeon surprised journalists and politicians with her sudden resignation announcement on Wednesday, after more than eight years at the top of Scottish politics.
At a press conference lasting almost an hour, she praised her own record in office and denied that she was going due to a series of scandals and fiascos — or a possible police probe into the apparent disappearance of nearly £500,000 raised from supporters to fund a new bid for independence from the UK — allegedly misused to fund campaigning in the 2017 snap UK general election.
Her political opponents paid tribute to her after months of condemning the SNP's failed infrastructure projects and her gender identity polices that saw male sex offenders housed in a women's jail.
But Trump posted on his Truth Social networking site that it was "good riddance" to the "failed woke extremist."
"This crazed leftist symbolizes everything wrong with identity politics," Trump wrote. "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," he added.
But the former White House chief revealed a more personal beef with Sturgeon over his business interests in Scotland.
"I built the greatest Golf properties in the World in Scotland, but she fought me all the way, making my job much more difficult," Trump wrote. "The wonderful people of Scotland are much better off without Sturgeon in office!"