Tuesday 17 January 2012

Donald Trump gets coat of arms

After four years, the Court of the Lord Lyon has given Donald Trump permission to use a coat of arms that he has had designed for his new golf resort in Aberdeenshire.

Don't get me started! I guess everything comes to he who waits...

The Deadline website has the story at www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2012/01/17/donald-trump-at-last-awarded-the-scottish-coat-of-arms/, whilst the Mail has a tasteful take on it at www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087966/Donald-Trump-wins-right-use-family-crest-advertise-golf-course-battling-ancient-Scottish-law.html

Apologies for that, I'm off to look for some real news now...!

UPDATE: Thankfully it looks like the Lyon Office did not sanction the arms designed by Trump's team, but instead denied him permission to use them - as they should have done - before coming up with a replacement. The Daily Record has more on this at www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2012/01/18/donald-trump-comes-up-with-official-coat-of-arms-to-go-with-750m-golf-resort-86908-23705556/. The suggestion that any Tom, Dick or Harry could just bypass Scots Law on this would have been quite a hard pill to swallow!

Chris

3 comments:

  1. Ohmygoodness, Chris - anyone (ANYONE) can have a coat of arms designed for them... but anything about Donald Trump is so... so... ummm... lame!
    I think he actually believes he's special. Sigh.

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  2. Absolutely anyone can have a coat of arms designed for them. Note the "designed for them" bit! In this case, from what I can gather, Trump's corporation actually designed the coat of arms and then argued for the right to use them. My understanding of the Scottish heraldic system is that that is not how it is supposed to be done - I always believed the officers of arms had to design them. But I am open to correction!

    Chris

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  3. See update. Looks like he didn't get his way with his own design after all - as should be the case.

    Chris

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