Melania Trump plagiarism/rickroll megathread

[Joe Republic]

If something is repeated over and over again and is in the public domain, it is not plagiarism. Both Melania Trump and Michelle Obama likely said the similar things with similar construct to what many, many other politicians have said in the past.

People are talking about a few sentences from two paragraphs in a lengthy speech, which basically state one of the concepts that politicians on either side of the aisle agree upon. I consider what both parties said to be political truisms for any candidate seeking election.

Since it is political stock, speechwriters have a tendency to formulate that particular thought in a similar manner -- almost formalistically.

The words that were written for Michelle Obama were hardly new. They were also likely likewise appropriated from some other speech. This happens all the time in politics.

The fact that the press is making such a big deal over a matter that is trivial is an absolute and complete joke. You probably could go through just about every speech made on that floor on Monday and find one or two paragraphs of those speeches that came from somewhere else.

It's political rhetoric.

As is typical on this forum, there's a knee-jerk overreaction to both the gravity of the alleged infraction and the political impact of said infraction. This is much ado about nothing at the end of the day.

[Joe Republic]

I'm still a bit concerned that Trump will run around and hurt me, though.

He's already indicated that, during his term, he may say goodbye and desert us.

[Joe Republic]

Sources are now saying that Trump is planning to publicly apologize for the plagiarism and has fired the person who created the speech.

He fired his wife? Heartless but it falls into the realm of what we've come to expect from him.

The article he linked to explains further details.