Melania Trump made the headlines on the first night of the Republican National Convention. But by morning, they had grown snarky.
It didn’t take long before the Twitterverse lit up with similarities between Donald Trump’s wife speech Monday and the one Michele Obama gave to the Democratic National Convention in 2008.
Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, went on CNN Tuesday morning to denounce the claims that the speech was lifted.
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2 Paragraphs from Melania Trump’s Speech Sound A Lot Like Michelle Obama’s
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“These were common words and values that she cares about her family,” Manafort said.
Others didn’t see it that way, mocking her on #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes.
“If at first you don’t succeed,
copy and paste again.” #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes— NUFF$AID (@nuffsaidNY) July 19, 2016
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes
— Loni Love (@LoniLove) 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
Harry Shearer, the voice of the iconic “Simpsons” characters Mr. Burns and Ned Flanders, riffed on the speech.
Asked by a journo if she could write her own convention speech, Melania replied, “Yes I can!”
— Harry Shearer (@theharryshearer) July 19, 2016
Just uncovered: first draft of Melania Trump’s memoir, “The Fierce Urgency of Slovenia”.
— Harry Shearer (@theharryshearer) July 19, 2016
Just discovered: first draft of Melania’s autobiography, “Dreams of My Papa”.
— Harry Shearer (@theharryshearer) July 19, 2016
Another line in the speech drew comparisons to an ’80s pop hit.
Melania Trump on her husband, @realDonaldTrump #RNCinCLE pic.twitter.com/tcsVDB16VB
— Vocativ (@vocativ) July 19, 2016
This is almost word-for-word from Rick Astley’s 1987 song “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
“Never gonna give you up/Never gonna let you/Never gonna run around and desert you,” Astley implores.
It makes us wonder in this bizarre campaign season if we were also being rickrolled.