Jason Cherkis@The Huffington Post (9/13/16): “Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump asked the Obama administration in 2011 to intervene on his behalf with the Chinese justice system. His complaint went to the heart of Trump’s business empire. A small-time Chinese coffee shop business had registered the word ‘Trump.’ ‘I would greatly appreciate someone speaking to the Chinese and Macau representatives to ask them how such a miscarriage of justice could have taken place,’ Trump wrote, referring to a ruling that found that Trump could still trademark his name for hotels, but not for restaurants. ‘The Trump name resonates throughout the entire world; whether it is from a world class building, my highly rated television show, my dozens of best-selling books, or any of the other products and services which bear my name,’ Trump wrote to then-Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. ‘According to their ignorant council of judges, it appears the only two places in the world I am not well known are China and Macao [sic].'”
