Melania. Girl. WYD?

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First Lady hopeful, Melania Trump delivered a speech Monday night as millions watched the Republican National Convention unfold in Cleveland. As she began to discuss family values and her husband, presidential candidate Donald Trump, something just wasn’t quite right. Melania’s words sounded similar to Michelle Obama’s speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Here is an excerpt from Melania’s speech Monday night.


“From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life: that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise; that you treat people with respect. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily life.”

This is from Mrs. Obama’s 2008 speech.

“And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them,”

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Now listen to them both.

Coincidence? Well.. Earlier in the day when asked about the contents of her speech, Melania told NBC’s Matt Lauer that she wrote the speech with very little assistance.

“I read once over it and that’s all, because I wrote it, and with as little help as possible,” she said.

On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort said Tuesday on CNN’s New Day that Mrs. Trump merely used “common words” as the First Lady and to call it plagiarism is “crazy” and “absurd”.

But the American people know better.

Welcome, #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes.

Jesse Williams won the hashtag.

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