Melania Trump steals portion of RNC speech from Michelle Obama's DNC speech

[Petrichor 4,640]

Is it 2017 yet?

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/19/12221566/melania-trump-michelle-obama?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[FATCAT 60,888]

 Whoever wrote her speech is cackling all the way to the bank.

[DeleteMyAccount 11,881]

Tbh they're both pretty general statements. But Michelle said it better.

[Morphine Prince 109,655]

I feel bad for her. 

She is hot so it's ok. 

Her writers though. WTF were they thinking?  

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

Reductive  

[Iwontell 7,312]

Tbh, those statements are pretty general and expect in these events...they're also kind of, you know, that heap of BS that "simple" ppl fall for, so why even fight about it...?

[En_Sabah_Nur 9,366]

They're calling it Plagiarism now...   

 

[Lion Heart 15,041]

Thief

[Whispering 18,865]

That particular part of the speech was about keeping your word, honesty and values...and she plagerized it! 

Every university, hell...high school in the US would deem this as plagerism. 22 words out of 26 words that Melania spoke were taken directly from Michelle Obama's speech. In the other passage 29 words were identical with six words being slightly changed. There is no doubt that this speech was lifted directly from Michelle's 2008 DNC speech. 

[Shadow 6,697]

Maybe she used the the same speech writer and got lazy? Seems like they're not even trying to be original... 

[Takemyhand 634]

Like she thought people wouldn't notice? 

[Babel 41,637]

CNN comparing both speeches fragment by fragment:

It almost seems like she was meant to do the same speech but forgot some words halfway in and improvised. 

[Lion Heart 15,041]

#BeckyWithTheBorrowedSpeech trending on Twitter

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

12 hours ago, FATCAT said:

 Whoever wrote her speech is cackling all the way to the bank.

I could be remembering incorrectly but didn't Donald say she wrote it herself?

[FATCAT 60,888]

Just now, just4fun said:

I could be remembering incorrectly but didn't Donald say she wrote it herself?

Yea, but her speech also contained a rick roll. This was intentional, she didn't write it(at least not the gist of it).