Trump Copied Another Familys Coat Of Arms [View all]
Source: Huffington Post
05/29/2017 05:44 pm ET
The emblem’s original bearer “would be rolling over in his grave,” a grandson tells The New York Times.
By Akbar Shahid Ahmed
WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, is marking golf properties and related products in the U.S with a coat of arms that belongs to a different family, after being barred by British authorities from doing so in the United Kingdom, according to a New York Times report on Sunday.
The Trump emblem is a nearly exact copy of the crest Britain granted to American diplomat Joseph Edward Davies in 1939. There’s just one tweak: where the original featured “integritas,” the Latin word for integrity, the president’s version substitutes, inevitably, the name “Trump.”
The billionaire developer appears to have begun using the coat of arms after he bought the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Baech, Florida, in 1985. The property was being run by a foundation set up by Davies’ third wife, cereal-company heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.
Davies’ grandson, former Sen. Joseph D. Tydings (D-Md.), told the Times Trump never asked for his permission to adopt the crest. The corrupted version of the emblem is now used on a range of Trump products ― even body wash.
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