Melania Trump Stole A Michelle Obama Speech & The Internet Is Melting

Look, it’s only cheating if you get caught. Everyone who’s ever written a University essay knows this to be an absolute truth.

But goddamn, if you’re lifting unattributed blocks of text from somewhere to pass off as your own words, you’ve gotta pick your spots.

A first year 1,000 word undergrad essay on the importance of maintaining metaphor integrity in Shakespearean film adaptations? Sure. Go nuts. Rip that shit all you want.

But a speech at the Republican National Convention in support of your partner who is running for President? Yeah, nah. You might want to give Google Books a miss on that.

Donald Trump is currently enjoying the ultimate ego gobby that is the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. Keynote speakers as diverse as actor Scott Baio and Willie Robertson of the A&E reality TV series ‘Duck Dynasty‘ have spoken in favour of Trump and about how Obama is a muslim and how back in the good old days that one place on the corner sold grilled cheese and milkshakes but now there’s a Whole Foods across the road what the heck?

But I digress.

Trump’s wife Melania addressed the baying masses in Cleveland earlier today, with a speech that was surprisingly stirring. Despite it being her second language, Melania (who has been working as a speechwriter for the past six-odd years) captivated the crowd with her words that were at once moving, humbling, and wholly familiar.

Actually come to think of it, they were too familiar.

And that feeling of familiarity is not a coincidence, because as it turns out, a giant chunk of it was lifted pretty much verbatim from Michelle Obama‘s 2008 speech at the Democratic National Convention.

S-E-R-I-O-U-S-L-Y.

CORRECTION: Melania stole a whole graph from Michelle’s speech. #GOPConvention
WATCH: https://t.co/8BCOwXAHSy pic.twitter.com/zudpDznGng

— Jarrett Hill (@JarrettHill) July 19, 2016

Cop the side-by-side comparison, why don’t you.

So that’s pretty blatant, right? pic.twitter.com/EPnHME7afV

— Mike Hearn (@mikehearn) July 19, 2016

The wife of the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee just plagiarised a speech made by the current, sitting, Democratic First Lady of the United States. Wonders: They truly never cease.

The internet being the internet, the joke machine immediately swung into overdrive, digging up a surprising amount of quotes Melania has made in the past that suddenly sound extremely suspect.

“I have a dream” #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes

— jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) July 19, 2016

“Work, work, work, work, work, work
He say me have to
Work, work, work, work, work, work!” #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes

— jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) July 19, 2016

“Life is like a box of chocolates” – Melania Trump

— billy eichner (@billyeichner) July 19, 2016

“You wanna rumble wit the bee huh? Put a hex on ya whole family!”#FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes

— LEFT (@LeftSentThis) July 19, 2016

“You’re a wizard, Harry.” #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes

— Ashly Perez (@itsashlyperez) July 19, 2016

“Barack and I want to thank you for your support.” #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes

— Miles Tougeaux (@milestougeaux) July 19, 2016

“Hold the door!” #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes

— Jordan Ramirez (@JRAM_91) July 19, 2016

“You better call Becky with the good hair” – #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes

— Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) July 19, 2016

“I have had it with these mothahfuckin’ snakes on this mothahfuckin’ plane” #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes

— Anna Kendrick (@AnnaKendrick47) July 19, 2016

“I’d very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that Ive never been asked to be apart of since 2009.” #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes

— Daniel Preda (@MisterPreda) July 19, 2016

“Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down.” #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes

— Julia Wilde (@Julia_SCI) July 19, 2016

Who would’ve thought after all this time such wisdom would prove to be theft?

The nerve of it all.

Source: Twitter.

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