Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has trademarked his name for lingerie products in China, financial disclosure documents show.
The documents have been released by the Federal Election Commission and are the first public insight into the former U.S. president’s earnings this year. The disclosure is over 250 pages long and lists all Trump’s incomes, investments, debts and business interests. They also list numerous trademarks that he holds.
One company, under the registered owner name of DTTM Operations, has trademarked “TRUMP” for a variety of clothing items including lingerie, shower caps and white sackcloth robes for priests and pastors.
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Other trademarks for the Trump name in China are for purposes that include “health spa services,” “children’s clothing,” “computerized file management” and the “rental of drinking water dispensers.”
Five Chinese trademarks for products and services including restaurants and constriction projects were also filed in his daughter Ivanka Trump‘s name.
In January, Trump admitted that at least four of his businesses earned $5.5 million from China during his first two years in office as president. A Democratic report accused him of violating the U.S. Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause, which prohibits federal officials from accepting money or gifts from foreign governments without the permission of Congress.
At a Fox News town hall, Trump defended himself: “If I have a hotel and somebody comes in from China, that’s a small amount of money. But I was doing services for them, people were staying in these massive hotels, these beautiful hotels—because I have the best hotels and the best clubs, I have great stuff—and they stay there and they pay. I don’t get $8 million for doing nothing.”
In 2016, during his first presidential campaign, Trump complained about having to buy Chinese goods. “A friend of mine is a great manufacturer. And, you know, China comes over and they dump all their stuff, and I buy it. I buy it, because, frankly, I have an obligation to buy it, because they devalue their currency so brilliantly. They just did it recently, and nobody thought they could do it again,” Trump said.
He also accused China of stealing U.S. jobs: “They [Americans] can’t get jobs, because there are no jobs, because China has our jobs and Mexico has our jobs.”
Trump also has trademarks under his name in numerous other countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom.
Lingerie aside, the documents revealed some of the unconventional ways in which Trump more than makes ends meet. He cashed in over $300,000 for endorsing The Greenwood Bible and the Letters to Trump Book, which features notes from celebrities to the ex-president and yielded $4.47 million in royalties.
The financial disclosure documents also showed that Trump owes over $100 million from lawsuits.
Another section of the documents highlighted the income his wife Melania Trump has made from speaking engagements, agreement licensing for non-fungible tokens and rent received from real estate properties.
Newsweek has emailed Trump’s representatives for comment.
Trump’s financial disclosure documents are embedded below.
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