Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, has denied that Melania Trump plagiarized aspects of First Lady Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. Melania Trump also claims to have written many aspects of the speech herself, saying in an interview with the Today Show, “I read it once over, and that’s all because I wrote it with as little help as possible.”
But despite the denials and the attempts at damage control, the social media sphere went IN! See the speech mash-up below and all the super HILARIOUS reactions below:
https://twitter.com/michaelcrowley/status/755256679101411329
#MelaniaTrump knows strife, struggle and discomfort–after all she's married to a Lego pic.twitter.com/QMjf5R8jet
— Margaret Cho (@margaretcho) July 19, 2016
#MichelleObama @FLOTUS probably saw #MelaniaTrump "speech" and was like.. "@BarackObama come see this mess!!" pic.twitter.com/LXKYOD9lW2
— Iceberg Slim (@icequeentt) July 19, 2016
Michelle when she found out Melania stole her speech and is a thief #MichelleObama #MelaniaTrump pic.twitter.com/BQQcWLbvmA
— I’m Black. I do it all. (@ChantelNicole44) July 19, 2016
"My squad in the club, but you know they not dancin’ / We gangsta and gangstas don’t dance, we boogie" #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes
— jesse Williams. (@iJesseWilliams) July 19, 2016
BMWK, what do you think? Was this intentional plagiarism? Or if it was unintentional, does it matter?