... of course he did. Modus operandi for Dumb Donald.
At President Donald Trump's golf course and estates across the country, his coat of arms - three lions and two chevrons on a shield, below a gloved hand holding an arrow - can be seen everywhere.
This weekend, Trump hosted the Senior P.G.A. Championship at the Trump National Golf Club in Washington D.C. and the emblem could be seen in exercise rooms, the pro shop and even the front sign.
But the emblem is not a Trump original and actually has origins with a British family.
In 1939, British authorities granted the coat of arms to Joseph Edward Davies, the third husband of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the socialite who built the Mar-a-Lago resort that Trump frequents.
President Trump - who has a Scottish version of the crest replacing the two lions with eagles to represent 'dual nature and nationality' of his Scottish and German ancestry - chose to take the crest and changed 'Integritas,' Latin for integrity, to 'Trump.'
Former US Senator Joseph D. Tydings - a Democrat and grandson of Davies - first saw the logo when he visited Trump's favorite getaway.
'There are members of the family who wanted to sue him,' said Mr. Tydings to the New York Times.
'This is the first I've ever heard about it being used anywhere else.'
The College of Arms - which oversees coats of arms in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - told the New York Times that in 2007, they found that the logo Trump attempted to submit actually belonged to Davies, a once ambassador to the Soviet Union.
'It couldn't be a clearer-cut case, actually,' said Clive Cheesman, one of the college's heralds.
'A coat of arms that was originally granted to Joseph Edward Davies in 1939 by the English heraldic authority ended up being used 10 or 15 years ago by the Trump Organization as part of its branding for its golf clubs. This got them into difficulty.'
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At President Donald Trump's golf course and estates across the country, his coat of arms - three lions and two chevrons on a shield, below a gloved hand holding an arrow - can be seen everywhere.
This weekend, Trump hosted the Senior P.G.A. Championship at the Trump National Golf Club in Washington D.C. and the emblem could be seen in exercise rooms, the pro shop and even the front sign.
But the emblem is not a Trump original and actually has origins with a British family.
In 1939, British authorities granted the coat of arms to Joseph Edward Davies, the third husband of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the socialite who built the Mar-a-Lago resort that Trump frequents.
President Trump - who has a Scottish version of the crest replacing the two lions with eagles to represent 'dual nature and nationality' of his Scottish and German ancestry - chose to take the crest and changed 'Integritas,' Latin for integrity, to 'Trump.'
Former US Senator Joseph D. Tydings - a Democrat and grandson of Davies - first saw the logo when he visited Trump's favorite getaway.
'There are members of the family who wanted to sue him,' said Mr. Tydings to the New York Times.
'This is the first I've ever heard about it being used anywhere else.'
The College of Arms - which oversees coats of arms in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - told the New York Times that in 2007, they found that the logo Trump attempted to submit actually belonged to Davies, a once ambassador to the Soviet Union.
'It couldn't be a clearer-cut case, actually,' said Clive Cheesman, one of the college's heralds.
'A coat of arms that was originally granted to Joseph Edward Davies in 1939 by the English heraldic authority ended up being used 10 or 15 years ago by the Trump Organization as part of its branding for its golf clubs. This got them into difficulty.'
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