The perfect metaphor: Trump took another family's coat of arms as his own without permission and then changed the inscribed motto “Integritas” (Integrity) to “Trump”. Please note the tiny hand on top. Unfortunately it still holds an arrow but would be better holding a golf club, no?
At any rate, Trump uses this in the USA but can’t in the UK due to legal restrictions. And weirdly there’s even a Russian connection. The original Davies family member who was entitled to use this Coat of Arms was an ambassador to the Soviet Union and was an apologist for Stalin.
One wonders what a Trump/Drumpf coat of arms should really be. Someone tweeted a poop emoji with dollar sign eyes and MAGA red hat.
At the Trump National Golf Club outside Washington, which hosted the Senior P.G.A. Championship this weekend, the president’s coat of arms is everywhere — the sign out front, the pro shop, even the exercise room.
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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.
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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.
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Mr. Trump tried to bring the American version to Scotland a decade ago. He used the emblem on promotional materials when he started marketing a new golf course development in Aberdeenshire, on Scotland’s east coast. But the materials ran afoul of the coat-of-arms authorities in Scotland — a uniquely British problem.
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The College of Arms, which oversees coats of arms in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, provided more detail. The emblem originally submitted in 2007 by Mr. Trump to Britain’s trademark office matched one that had been granted to Mr. Davies, an American of Welsh descent who once served as ambassador to the Soviet Union.
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