Melania Trump May Have Plagiarized Michelle Obama
Many people have noticed some similarities between Melania Trump's speech at the RNC and Michelle Obama's speech from 2008.
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00:00 As Melania Trump once said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you
00:04 can do to become a meme."
00:06 So the Republican National Convention just became even more of a joke.
00:10 Potential First Lady Melania Trump gave a speech that seemed oddly familiar to some
00:15 people.
00:16 But to be fair, I'm sure a lot of political speeches are the same.
00:20 How many times can we talk about love and family and all that and have it sound different?
00:24 So let's just listen to the clips side by side and judge for ourselves.
00:28 "Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values and to pass them on to the
00:35 next generation."
00:36 "And we need to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow."
00:42 "Oh."
00:43 "That your word is your bond, that you do what you say you're gonna do."
00:48 "That your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise."
00:53 "Ohhhh, s***."
00:57 In what must either be a spectacular oversight or a spectacular instance of trolling by one
01:03 of the speech writers, large portions of that speech were in fact plagiarized from Michelle
01:08 Obama's address to the DNC in 2008.
01:12 And because no detail goes unnoticed on the internet, people took to social media almost
01:18 immediately.
01:19 "Debra Messing, OMG Melania Trump's speech is plagiarized from Michelle Obama's '08
01:23 speech."
01:24 In one passage, 22 out of the 26 words were identical.
01:28 Apparently Debra Messing does not just play a detective on TV.
01:32 "I'm sickened."
01:33 "Emma Gray, IRL footage of FLOTUS watching Melania Trump's speech last night."
01:39 "Mo Ryan, so thanks Obama?"
01:42 And once the news was sufficiently broke, then people took to Twitter with the new hashtag
01:47 "FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes."
01:48 "Alyssa Milano, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
01:52 #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes" "Jesse Williams, work work work work work,
01:56 you say me have to work work work work work."
01:59 As of this morning, the Trump campaign has said that nobody is getting fired over that
02:03 speech, so points to at least sticking to your guns.
02:07 Meanwhile, Chris Christie maintains that 93% of Melania's speech was different.
02:12 "Could you make a case for plagiarism?"
02:14 "No, not when 93% of the speech is completely different than Michelle Obama's speech.
02:19 And they express some common thoughts.
02:21 And so, listen, almost word for word."
02:23 "Who's a good boy?
02:24 Who's a good boy?
02:25 Do you want a treat?
02:26 Do you want a treat?
02:27 Chris Christie, do you want a treat?"
02:28 I mean, I agree, it's very, very hard to type the words "good first lady speech" into the
02:32 search bar at Google.
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