Politics & Government
Best Jokes About Melania Trump's Plagiarized RNC Speech
Her gaffe was the biggest story from night one of the Republican National Convention.
The biggest story from the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland was unquestionably Melania Trump stealing several significant lines of her headline speech from Michelle Obama's Democratic convention address in 2008.
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So big that some lucky ol' codger (we assume) at The New York Daily News got to bark, "Stop the presses!" and order a revised front page.
The newspaper went from this...
Got a kick out of the earlier Tuesday wood for the @NYDailyNews regarding those who spoke before Melania Trump. pic.twitter.com/QGkepT5qwx
— Keldy Ortiz (@KeldyOrtiz) July 19, 2016
...to this:
STOP THE PRESSES! New front: THANKS, MRS. OBAMA Melania speech lifts words from Michellehttps://t.co/sYlCcvAA8U pic.twitter.com/YZcdHfoSKl
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 19, 2016
But the New York tabloid and its editors were far from the only people having fun at Melania Trump's expense. Twitter users spawned the hashtag #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes.
We did the tough job of reading through all of the best jokes following the speech.
ISIS just claimed responsibility for Melania's speech.
— Jay Welch (@welchjay) July 19, 2016
The Trump campaign denies that Melania plagiarized her speech. Their official statement: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) July 19, 2016
When your essay is due at 12:00 & it's 11:30 https://t.co/zIvFj8Uec8
— Best Vines (@TheFunnyVine) July 19, 2016
Melania's speech was quintessentially American. It came from somewhere else.
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) July 19, 2016
The keyboard used to write her speech #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes pic.twitter.com/IBcE8Slb6H
— Sebastian Cevallos (@SebCevallos) July 19, 2016
"Barack Obama is still the same man I fell in love with all those years ago." #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes
— Fielding Mellish (@n64k) July 19, 2016
"...my fellow Americans ask not what your copy & paste can do for you, ask what you can do for your copy & paste" #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes
— Laura Bedrossian (@LauraBedrossian) July 19, 2016
"This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."#FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes pic.twitter.com/p6v5i0Fb0V
— Parker (@Parker9_) July 19, 2016
All these #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes are great, but let's take a moment to recognize her amazing artistic skills too. pic.twitter.com/cyiPTpQiDh
— william james (@thebilljim) July 19, 2016
#FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes "When I was growing up as a little black girl on the southside of Chicago..."
— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) July 19, 2016
For God's sake, Trump has spent months baying at moon like he has mad cow disease. If he started stealing good speeches, I'd call it a plus.
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) July 19, 2016
Make America Copy and Paste Again. #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes
— Rep. Alan Grayson (@AlanGrayson) July 19, 2016
"Honey, Melania plagiarized her speech, do you think this will finally--" "Go back to sleep, Jeb."
— David Goodman (@DavidAGoodman) July 19, 2016
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