From Trump the Nationalist, a Trail of Global Trademarks

[BeckyDem]

LONDON — Donald J. Trump has cast himself as the anti-globalist president.

But Donald Trump, the businessman, is a different story.

During the campaign, Mr. Trump’s organization continued to file dozens of new trademarks, in China, Canada, Mexico, the European Union and Indonesia, and one of his companies applied for trademark protection in the Philippines more than a month after the election, a review of foreign records by The New York Times showed.

His trademarks in recent years have covered all manner of potential products, including soap and perfume in India, engineering services in Brunei and vodka in Israel. Even last week, the government in China, where his companies have filed for at least 126 trademarks since 2005, announced it was granting Mr. Trump rights to protect his name brand for construction projects, affirming a decision made in November.

The contrast with his hard-line anti-globalism since taking office is stark. During his first weeks as president, Mr. Trump denounced China and Mexico for unfair trade practices and derided the European Union as “basically a vehicle for Germany.” He ended American involvement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sprawling trade pact with Asian nations, and said he would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/business/donald-trump-trademarks-china.html

Mr. Plunder and his family on display.

[Mc Mike]

1. Repug double think and hypocrisy on display.

And, re dRumpf perfume, who would ever want to smell like that?

[BeckyDem]

2. To plunder, to reap monetarily at every turn, that is all Trump and company is about.

Trump Swamp eau de cologne? I would never touch the stuff.

[Mc Mike]

3. He might like to be a nazi dictator, too. To be all powerful, and terrifying,

and worshipped by nazi flunkies would feed his enormous ego, his all-encompassing sense of self importance, his belief that he's divinely appointed to rule.

He might cash in on a sweetheart contract, while he's a-hitlering, though, by selling a weaponized version of eau de dRumpf to the Defense Dept. Emoluments clause be damned.

[BeckyDem]

4. My gut tells me Trump and his family are about one thing, primarily money. I am not

giving them a pass on all the racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism they are perpetuating. I see him as a man who has no ideology other than what will help him win, so pairing up with Bannon and his crew was acceptable to these people. Leading a birther movement, all to cull votes. I do not see much difference between a bigot who believes the hate they spew or one who will sell out any sense of their humanity to get what they want, winning the presidency. He is still vile and just as dangerous as the believers and his family is helping him every step of the way. He does not care what the consequences will be, so I would say he has no grand delusions like Hitler of forming a perfect race and all his history. That does not mean he isn't dangerous, he is wrecking ball and is dumb enough to think none of these policies, domestic and foreign could hurt his own children and grand children.

[Mc Mike]

5. Possibly, you're right.

There's no doubt that he's always on the make for money, no scam is too small. He's also oversexed.

But he kept the Hitler's speeches book on his nightstand, by his bed, to study.

He's repeatedly bragged about his 'good genes' and his breeding. ( https://thinkprogress.org/steve-bannons-disturbing-views-on-genetic-superiority-are-shared-by-trump-243d73866e2d?gi=894515726af5 ) I remember him bragging about the good genes of his physicist uncle, and how they showed he himself had good genes, and was very smart.

His dad was busted participating in a klan rally riot, and the constant racist moves drumpf's dad, drumpf, and his companies have been caught in are well-documented. (I'll bet any money Friedrich was a bund member, too.) That racism wasn't about making money, it's about personal racist likes and dislikes, actually interferes with making money.

Dozens of ties to nazis were displayed by him and his family during the campaign.

There's 2 ways to interpret it: Either 1) He's a high-pressure bullcrapping salesman, who is used to lying and spinning yarns, telling the marks what they want to hear, to get their money in his pocket. And he just happened to be trying to get all the nazis to buy his product (him as president), instead of trying to get all normal anti-nazi Americans to buy his product.

Or 2) He actually believes his genes and bloodlines are those of a superior person, he actually believes the racist nazi crap he constantly says and tweets, AND he's simultaneously always on the make for money and power, always looking for a new scam to make a quick buck and increase his clout.

The dozens of nazi orgs and racists public figureheads who back him definitely believe the latter possibility. He's never disabused them of that notion, even when he had to be dragged kicking and screaming into disavowing neo-nazi Dave Duke, or 'condemning' anti-semitism.

Some CNN anchor pointed out how quick he is to attack Nordstroms or the media for saying something he doesn't like, but it took him days to decry dozens of bomb threats against synagogues, and he attacked a friendly orthodox Jewish reporter for asking him what kind of action the dRUmpf gov would take to combat this alarming increase in anti-semitism, instead of just issuing some do nothing boilerplate statement like 'My (klansman) Attorney General is going to take strong decisive action against hate criminals.'

He regarded the question by the Jewish reporter -- though it was prefaced with the statement "none of my people think you or anyone in your administration are racist" -- as an attack that accused poor dRumpf of being racist. How dare you ask me to decry racist white supremacist terrorism?

He called the question unfair, not an easy question, dishonest. Then launched into an attack where he interrupted the guy, ordered him to sit down, told him to be quiet, be quiet, be quiet, and said 'I'm the least anti-semitic person you ever met. I'm the least racist person ever.'

That wasn't the question, the question was what is the admin going to do about the racist nazi attacks? The answer obviously was 'nothing', but he got really mad that he had to issue any statement about it at all, though he could have issued his usual meaningless empty salesman drivel promises. Oh, and he mispronounced BiBi Netanyahu's name, to boot, calling him Betanyahu, while he was using that meeting with the Israeli PM to show how great he is at being against anti-semitism.

I remember when reporter Julia Ioffe had the gall to report on Melania and her family, and Julia was instantly targeted by neo-nazis with tons of death threats and doxxing. Drumpfenfuhrer and his wife never condemned the perpetrators of those attacks, instead they condemned Ms. Ioffe for HER actions.

She made dRumpf nazi fans mad. And she made the dRumpfs mad. So there was no little meaningless pablum statement about 'these aren't our people, we're against anti-semitism and death threats and nazis.' Instead they took the opportunity to say it was the reporter's fault, to blame the victim, to go on the attack against her, while the nazis were on the attack against her.

It's easy to conflate the actions, aims, interests of the nazis and the dRumpfs. It's harder to think he's just a scamming businessman with no particular ideology. But that's just my interpretation, though it happens to be shared by international fascista, to such a degree that it doesn't matter if drumpf is scamming them. They're backing him 100%.

And he's letting them do whatever they want, saving all his ire and ammo for his real enemies, Moslems, Hispanics, Immigrants, Blacks, Women, LGBTs, Religious minorities (like the Jews), labor, reporters, artists, academics, students, leftists, environmentalists, the poor -- you know, all the people that nazis are already on the record, since the 1930's, as hating.

[BeckyDem]

6. That is disturbing. He has no respect for any group of people, certainly not women.

His wife and especially Ivanka have been instrumental in giving him cover for ant-Semitism and nationalistic views. They both covered for him with women, which is very telling! That said, people who put money and power above all else can be stupid too. Disturbing to me and why I said, I have to wonder if Trump and his family stupidly believe they or their children will not be harmed by his policies and hateful rhetoric. They seem to live in their own 1% of the world bubble. Omitting the words, Jewish people, from the Holocaust memo was shocking but we see it was not an accident. Ivanka tweeted a meaningless message about places of worship should be safe, but again, the words anti-Semitism nor Jewish people are not specified in her tweet. I do no accept this is as coincidental and is another sign of their enabling the Bannon crews world view. I don't claim to know Trump's beliefs but he always came off as a money first man. It looks from your source he may be a lot sicker than I would have thought. Thanks for the article.

[Mc Mike]

7. I don't say my view is right and yours is wrong, Becky. No way of proving things for sure.

The preponderance of the info about him just says to me that money and power/control over others are interchangeable in his mind. Yeah, he's a greedy constant scammer, and as a failed 6 x bankruptcy declaring 'businessman', he's always trying to gouge even the smallest dollar amount out of any source. In 1990, he cashed a 13 cent check from Spy magazine, sent as a way to prank the wealthy and find out who was the most money grubbing among the conspicuously wealthy. (He and Adnan Khashoggi won.)

But the WWII nazis themselves were rife with money grubbing chiselers, too, committed virulent nazi murderers who were on the look out for any financial opportunity they could benefit from, while simultaneously being ideologically purists in favor of xenophobia, genocide, world domination. Even Hitler was on the take, grubbing money from Henry Ford, the Ruhr coal combine, etc.

Nice talking to you, B.D.

[BeckyDem]

8. I understand that, there is no certainty, sorry if I came off that way.

Can you believe what we're speculating about? Never in my life have I read journalists who I deeply respect in no way use scare tactics when writing about U.S. politicians. But, here we are, authors I respect are making references to fascism and all the bad scents of Hitler that gives people great pause. We must all be vigilant, McMike, we are better than this and we'll get out of it together. Nice talking to you too.