“It would not be a Trump contest without excitement and drama,” she said, eliciting the biggest laugh of the speech from the audience. “We want our children in this nation to know that the only limit of your achievements is the strength of your dreams and willingness to work for them,” she said, after mentioning her time in Milan and Paris, where she worked as a top model. Melania Trump spoke of her upbringing in Slovenia, of her mother who introduced her to “fashion and beauty” and father, who introduced her to business–both of whom impressed upon her the value of hard work. “It is my great honor to present the next first lady of the United States, my wife, an amazing, mother, an incredible woman, Melania Trump.”
#MELANIA TRUMP COPIED SPEECH FREE#
Campaign staffers should have known to use a free plagiarism checker before finalizing the script, given that more than 22 million viewers would be watching Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention.“We’re gonna win, we’re gonna win so big,” he repeated twice to the tune of Queen’s “We are the Champions,” a staple song of his campaign. Update: We now know the gaff was inadvertent, as Trump friend Meredith McIver has come forward and admitted. Even if it was sloppy editing, it’s still plagiarism. We may never know how parts of Michelle Obama’s script got embedded in Melania Trump’s 2016 Republican Convention speech. If you’re writing an article, website or any other document, and find certain phrases or expressions you like in a person's work, make sure you don’t poach a passage either on purpose or inadvertently.
Looking for inspiration is legal - many creative people do it. If you do, it shows the world you’re willing to cut corners, and at any price. This matters because it’s illegal to use someone else’s words as if they’re your own. If more than one person worked on the script, it likely got massaged, reviewed and massaged again, making Obama’s ideas indistinguishable from those of Trump and the scriptwriters. Working from a transcript, they copied and pasted the sections and merged them into the document with Trump’s personal ideas, but neglected to flag the original Obama text. Melania Trump’s speechwriters researched the speeches of former candidates’ wives to look for ideas, and found parts of Obama’s speech they felt worked for Trump. Here’s what may have happened at the Republican Convention. Lehrer is back with a book USA Today says “is a labor of ‘love,’” while The Guardian puts it less kindly in a piece titled, “Don’t call it a comeback: has Jonah Lehrer plagiarised again?” ”įormer New York Times reporter Jayson Blair, and author Jonah Lehrer - both of whom were caught plagiarizing - were disgraced and blacklisted from publishing. Merriam Webster defines plagiarism as using ".the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own words or ideas.” The online dictionary goes on to present the legal definition, “to copy and pass off (the expression of ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another’s work) without crediting the source.
Pundits are parsing opinions whether these text segments, interspersed with small amounts of new material, amount to plagiarism. He was shocked to find word-for-word chunks of Obama’s script in Trump’s speech. While watching Melania Trump’s speech to the Republican National Convention, an astute viewer heard something uncannily familiar.Īfter tweeting his find, Jarrett Hill told news media outlets that as he listened to Trump speaking about values, children and dreams, he recalled Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic Convention speech and went on a hunt to compare the two speeches.
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