Previously, the Secret Service wouldn’t allow Sikhs to wear their daggers around the Pope, and Barack Obama didn’t meet with any members of the Oak Creek, WI temple after the 2012 mass shooting (but Michelle went). So, I’m guessing these would be incredibly cheap swords.
I mean, I guess it’s “real” in the sense that it has a website but they haven’t announced any plans for a physical location so far. There’s been speculation that a couple floors of Trump Tower could be set aside for the task but that seems unlikely considering how much Trump and New York hate each other these days.
Gifts to the President of the United States actually belong to the U.S. Government, don’t they? Gifts to him personally while in office would be considered bribes, especially if they came from foreign powers.
Even though heads of state have traditionally exchanged gifts as expressions of goodwill, the Constitution (Article I, Section 9) prohibits anyone in the US Government from receiving a personal gift from a foreign head of state without the consent of Congress. Today, the handling of gifts from a foreign official to any Federal Government employee, including the President, is largely governed by the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act of 1966 and further legislation passed in 1977. Congress has allowed Federal employees to retain any gift from a foreign government, as long as the total US retail value of the gifts presented at one occasion does not exceed an amount established by the General Services Administration ($350).[1] Foreign official gifts over this “minimal value” are considered gifts to the people of the United States, which the recipient must purchase from GSA, at fair market value, in order to retain. The White House Gift Unit sees to the disposition of foreign official gifts that the President and First Lady do not retain.