Nicola Sturgeon has compared comments from Alister Jack over the timing of another independence referendum as like something Donald Trump would say.
The First Minister insisted the decision to hold any IndyRef2 in the future would ultimately be up to Scots and not politicians.
Jack - the Scottish Secretary in Boris Johnson's UK Government - riled Nationalists today by claiming another referendum might not happen for decades.
The Tory MP for Dumfries said the 2014 vote on independence was a once in a generation event - and then defined a generation as lasting between 25 and 40 years.
In an interview with the BBC, Jack said: “Is it 25 years or is it 40 years? You tell me. But it's certainly not six years, nor 10".
But Sturgeon fired back to say the US election proved that "politicians who rage against democracy don’t prevail".
“As we’re seeing across the Atlantic just now, politicians who rage against democracy don’t prevail," she said in a tweet.
"Let’s not dignify this rubbish. Instead let’s keep making and winning the case for independence.
"Power doesn’t belong to politicians - it belongs to the people.”
SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford also compared Jack's comments to Trump.
"One would have thought that Alister Jack would join the rest of us in condemning Donald Trump at his attempts at seeking to deny democracy in the US elections but no Jack wants to sup with the same spoon," he said.
"The people of Scotland are sovereign, there will be an indy ref."
An opinion poll published yesterday was the 12th survey in a row to find a majority of Scots backing independence.
Pollsters Survation said the result would be 54-46, not including undecided voters, in a second referendum.
The findings widen the gap from six points to eight points compared with Survation's last poll in September.
With undecided voters included, support for a Yes vote sits around 46% compared with 38% for No.
