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.”
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.
“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,” said Mr. Cheesman, a lawyer by training.
The Coat of Arms Said ‘Integrity.’ Now It Says ‘Trump.’ -
By DANNY HAKIMMAY 28, 2017
LONDON — At the Trump National Golf Club outside Washington, which hosted the Senior P. G.A.
When the Trump Organization created a Civil War memorial at the golf course near Washington commemorating a battle and a “river of blood”
that never occurred, a plaque marking the fictitious event was embossed with the coat of arms.
“There are members of the family who wanted to sue him,” said Mr. Tydings, a lawyer who wears his family’s coat of arms on a ring.
A different coat of arms flies over Mr. Trump’s two golf resorts in Scotland.
The organization has trademarked the Davies coat of arms in the United States, which has far less attachment to such symbols.
