HE’S the leader of the free world who has upset Mexicans and Muslims - but in one Scots village he is definitely out standing in his field.

That’s because Donald Trump has become a popular target at Scotland’s biggest scarecrow event in south Lanarkshire.

And his election as president has not deterred locals from having a pop at the US head of state during the week-long festival.

Around 400 scarecrows have been created for the seventh Bothwell Scarecrow Festival and a straw poll reveals a host of Trump effigies alongside creations based on everything from Game of Thrones and The Avengers to Spiderman and Oor Wullie.

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Trump first made an appearance at the event last year, with one effigy appearing to have the then would-be president with his finger on the red button.

This time round, as the newly elected leader of the free world, some have taken the rise out of his plan to build a wall on the US border with Mexico.

For Harry Marsh, one of the festival organisers, there is still a little bit of sensitivity about discussion about the Trump scarecrows, having been the subject of a prank call last year by radio DJ Robin Galloway.

Galloway had pretended to be a member of Trump Organisation complaining about the Trump effigy and threatening to put up a wall in Uddingston if there was no apology.

And when Galloway tried to catch him again this year, Mr Marsh told him politely to get stuffed. “He tried to get me again this year, and he pretended to be an Irishman complaining about the scarecrows scaring his pigeons and could I shift them. I just said Robin, you can’t do this to me again. It’s all good fun.

“This is a community event, and it is about getting people out of their houses and coming together. We are very pleased with the response this year.”

The event concludes tomorrow with a Grand Scarecrow Parade followed by an ‘afternoon of fun’ as the playground goes ‘down on the farm’ with music, dancers and races.