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Related: About this forumRickrolled: Melania Trump also inexplicably plagiarized Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”
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Amid all the controversy surrounding Melania Trumps speech at the Republican National Convention on Monday night which ripped off a speech given by Michelle Obama eight years earlier, it turns out Melania also plagiarized the lyrics from a pop song from the 1980s and it wasnt just any song. If youve ever been Rickrolled, which is to say youve been the victim of someone who slipped you a link to Rick Astleys Never Gonna Give You Up video, it turns out Melania Trump just Rickrolled the entire nation.
In a development almost too bizarre for words, Twitter users have picked up on the fact that Melania Trumps speech included the phrase He will never, ever give up. And most importantly, he will never, ever let you down. This is a rather blatant ripoff of Astleys signature lyrics Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down.
Its not immediately clear whether Melania knowingly inserted the Never Gonna Give You Up lyrics into her speech on purpose as a way of intentionally Rickrolling the nation, or if a speechwriter slipped these words into her speech as a way of trying to make her look foolish. In light of the larger picture in which so much of the speech was stolen from Michelle Obama, its fair to ask the question of whether a rogue speechwriter was trying multiple avenues of embarrassing Melania in the same speech. In any case, it caused Rick Astleys name to briefly become a trending topic on Twitter.
In a development almost too bizarre for words, Twitter users have picked up on the fact that Melania Trumps speech included the phrase He will never, ever give up. And most importantly, he will never, ever let you down. This is a rather blatant ripoff of Astleys signature lyrics Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down.
Its not immediately clear whether Melania knowingly inserted the Never Gonna Give You Up lyrics into her speech on purpose as a way of intentionally Rickrolling the nation, or if a speechwriter slipped these words into her speech as a way of trying to make her look foolish. In light of the larger picture in which so much of the speech was stolen from Michelle Obama, its fair to ask the question of whether a rogue speechwriter was trying multiple avenues of embarrassing Melania in the same speech. In any case, it caused Rick Astleys name to briefly become a trending topic on Twitter.
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Rickrolled: Melania Trump also inexplicably plagiarized Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” (Original Post)
Her Sister
Jul 2016
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Cha
(305,406 posts)1. “I read once over it and that’s all. Because I wrote it and with [as] little help as possible.”
"Melania Trump Plagiarized Her Convention Speech From Michelle Obama"
"Its unclear how much of her speech Melania actually wrote, but earlier in the day she told NBCs Matt Lauer, I read once over it and thats all. Because I wrote it and with [as] little help as possible.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/melania-trump-speech-plagiarized_us_578da752e4b0a0ae97c33675
Crooked melania owns all the words in the speech from her own mouth.
What a vipers' nest!
Thank you, Her Sister~
"Its unclear how much of her speech Melania actually wrote, but earlier in the day she told NBCs Matt Lauer, I read once over it and thats all. Because I wrote it and with [as] little help as possible.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/melania-trump-speech-plagiarized_us_578da752e4b0a0ae97c33675
Crooked melania owns all the words in the speech from her own mouth.
What a vipers' nest!
Thank you, Her Sister~
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)2. Oh MY!!! She makes no sense!
Such dummy she doesn't realize she's giving it away!
Cha
(305,406 posts)3. Well, it was before she ever thought she'd get busted for it..
I think she lied about writing the speech herself and some idiot trump speech writer wrote it for her.
I guess time well tell if the culprit's head will roll .. so to speak.
BlueMTexpat
(15,496 posts)4. She perhaps doesn't yet
understand how "The Google" works ... poor thing.
complain jane
(4,302 posts)5. :rofl: