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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Mon Aug 26, 2019, 05:01 PM Aug 2019

Trump family crest

The British are known to take matters of heraldry seriously, and Trump’s American coat of arms belongs to another family. It was granted by British authorities in 1939 to Joseph Edward Davies, husband of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the socialite who built the Mar-a-Lago resort that is now Trump’s cherished getaway. Trump had never asked permission.

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.”

Trump tried to bring the American version to Scotland a decade ago. But the materials ran afoul of the coat-of-arms authorities in Scotland. Trump also tried to trademark the emblem in Britain. But the application was rejected by their trademark office. The White House referred questions to the Trump Organization, which did not respond to requests for comment.

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

The crest, on the right, that President Trump displays at his American properties is a coat of arms ... the crest, on the left, that British authorities granted to another family.

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Trump family crest (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Aug 2019 OP
How apropos was that word change!?! Karadeniz Aug 2019 #1
Lol exactly, and, proof positive that hes a classless shitheel Volaris Aug 2019 #11
He certainly could not have kept the "Integrity"... 3catwoman3 Aug 2019 #2
"Integrity"? That's the ultimate in absurdity and irony Dirty Socialist Aug 2019 #3
Low rent fake. underpants Aug 2019 #4
I showed my late husband the phot of Trump, Melania, and Barron in the gold apt. SharonAnn Aug 2019 #8
Yes. Yes it is. underpants Aug 2019 #10
In other words, he stole it Hekate Aug 2019 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Ilsa Aug 2019 #9
Is that a helmet with the face nailed shut? Maru Kitteh Aug 2019 #6
and how hungry are those lions? LOL Takket Aug 2019 #7
Can't be the tRump coat of arms - no McDonald's arch and... KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2019 #12

SharonAnn

(13,772 posts)
8. I showed my late husband the phot of Trump, Melania, and Barron in the gold apt.
Mon Aug 26, 2019, 10:51 PM
Aug 2019

The Trump Tower apartment, filled with French antique looking gilded furniture. So much gold!

My husband said (translating from the Spanish saying) "The dream of a whore with money."

I think that phrase is even better than the word "tacky"

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KY_EnviroGuy

(14,490 posts)
12. Can't be the tRump coat of arms - no McDonald's arch and...
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 04:05 PM
Aug 2019

that spear should be a 9-iron. The lion's heads should be Honey Badgers!

Those inverted Vs mirror the scowl on my face each time I see the Dotard....



KY........

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