Trump: US Election a Chance to 'Re-declare Independence' Like Brexit

Donald Trump is praising the British people for voting to leave the European Union, calling it "a great thing."

Trump is in Scotland Friday to visit one of his golf resorts there.

"I love to see people take their country back," he told reporters in Scotland. "And that's really what's happening in the United States."

Trump says the Brits have voted "to reassert control over their own politics, border and economy."

And he's tying the Brexit vote to the upcoming U.S. election, saying that in November, "the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence" too.

The campaign leading to Thursday's stunning vote for Britain to pull out of the EU shared some of the populist themes driving the Trump campaign, including concerns about immigration and borders, and skepticism of the value of multinational organizations.

"People want to see borders. They don't necessarily want people pouring into their country that they don't know who they are and where they come from," Trump said.