NYT story: Trump STOLE his coat of arms - but changed "Integrity" to "Trump"

[highplainsdem]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/business/trump-coat-of-arms.html

The British are known to take matters of heraldry seriously, and Mr. Trump’s American coat of arms belongs to another family. It was granted by British authorities in 1939 to Joseph Edward Davies, the third husband of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the socialite who built the Mar-a-Lago resort that is now Mr. Trump’s cherished getaway.

In the United States, the Trump Organization took Mr. Davies’s coat of arms for its own, making one small adjustment — replacing the word “Integritas,” Latin for integrity, with “Trump.”

Joseph D. Tydings, a Democrat and former United States senator from Maryland who is the grandson of Mr. Davies, learned that Mr. Trump was using the emblem, at least at Mar-a-Lago, when he visited the property. Mr. Trump had never asked permission.

“There are members of the family who wanted to sue him,” said Mr. Tydings, a lawyer who wears his family’s coat of arms on a ring. “This is the first I’ve ever heard about it being used anywhere else.”

[packman]

1. This was the original Trump crest

[denbot]

2. LoL

The word integrity wasn't replaced, it fled.

[JDC]

17. Good one

[ProudProgressiveNow]

9. +1 nt

[marylandblue]

3. Hmm Why did he take out the word Integrity? nt

[Historic NY]

10. He has none.

[ProudLib72]

4. When I glanced at the title, I thought it said

"tRump stole his coat from a homeless man."

I don't know. I saw the first few words, and my brain filled in the rest.

[procon]

5. Looks like Trump changed the heraldic lion too.

The lion symbolises bravery, nobility, royalty, strength, stateliness, and valour, but in Trump's version it has morphed into some kind of a weaselly looking critter. The weasel symbolises blabbermouths and sneaks, a rat, turncoat, deceiver and double-crossers.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Perhaps it's a Russian Mink.

[Achilleaze]

20. "You rang?" - Comrade McMinky (R)

this Trump coat-of-arms "animal" may become the republican-fascist uniform going forward, to be adorned with a little tin "made-by-slave-labor" flag lapel pin so republicans can pretend they are not Betraying the USA.

[Solly Mack]

7. Figures.

[lpbk2713]

8. No class.

But that's common knowledge.

[yuiyoshida]

11. ADD THIEF TO HIS RESUME ...

[JHB]

21. Add?

Better to say, add another bullet point to the category.

[MurrayDelph]

12. So you're telling me

Trump's family seal is one where they literally threw out the Integrity.

[Lyricalinklines]

13. Lol Oh the Irony! Trump replaces "integrity" with word that means nothing similar.

This is so unsurprising. Why didn't we hear these things in 2015 & 2016? Guess he was spending big donation bucks to wipe clean evidence, eliminate available info and bully any evidence into submission lest his voters get any clue.

[world wide wally]

14. This asshole has a coat of arms?

OMG... a true man of the people.
Try this one next dilquad.

[smirkymonkey]

22. He doesn't. His family is Eurotrash.

He stole it from another family. He is once again pretending to be something that he is not.

[Chellee]

15. The most horrifying part is where he decimated a section of the Potomac shoreline,

invented a civil war battle, and then claimed he "preserved" the area. When historians told him that it never happened and wasn't called that, he said, "How would they know that? Were they there?" His stolen coat of arms is on the top of the plaque.







https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/us/politics/in-renovation-of-golf-club-donald-trump-also-dressed-up-history.html?_r=0

[no_hypocrisy]

16. The Mar-A-Lago portrait further demonstrates Trump's delusion of being a "gentleman".

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Note the long, tapering fingers . . . . .

[smirkymonkey]

23. Gag!

What a flaming narcissist!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

18. Well, that's...fitting. nt

[Achilleaze]

19. the republican "family values" role model is morally foul

and the republicans elevate this moral slob and ethical criminal to the top of their "family values" shit heap.

That speaks volumes. Deplorable.

[Gothmog]

24. Who is surprised by this?