Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Monday evening. Suffice to say, her speech did not generate positive buzz because media outlets all over the world are accusing her of plagiarizing Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech.
Moving forward, social media and pundits will debate whether or not she copied the present First Lady’s remarks.
This has one veteran speech writer and public speaker urging the media to “cut her some slack.”
In a press release, Topher Morrison, a veteran public speaker and speech writer of 30 years, has highlighted a few points regarding the matter. Here they are:
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Melania did not plagiarize Michelle Obama’s speech, but her speech writer certainly did. This shouldn’t be a reflection of Melania, but more of a reflection of how unorganized the Trump campaign is, and that the people they’ve selected aren’t necessarily the best people for the job.
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Melania is not a professional speaker. We know she didn’t write it because when interviewed she said, “I read once over it, that’s all.” When you write your own speech, you have so much skin in the game that you read it over multiple times because you want it to be perfect. She clearly had too much trust in her speech writer, and it came back to bite her.
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This was a rookie move orchestrated by an inexperienced speech writer who looked at past speeches and picked out the bits and bobs that they liked and threw them into Melania’s speech. All professional speech writers know you never copy another person’s story, but you can copy the emotion in which they deliver it.
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Another big mistake: you always deliver your speech to other people for feedback before you ever deliver it to an audience. Had she done that, someone might have picked up on the similarities to Michelle Obama’s speech.
It’s quite apparent that Melania’s speech is definitely ripped from Michelle’s. But what’s even more interesting is the left’s intolerance of the Republican nominee’s wife. Despite preaching their intolerance, Bernie Sanders supporters, millennial armchair activists and progressives are calling her a “dumb bitch” who should be deported because of her “stupid accent.”
Here are a few tweets (courtesy of Infowars.com):
Progressive Hillary supporter shows tolerance for “immigrant bitch” Melania Trump. #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes pic.twitter.com/6TetRBezkD
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) July 19, 2016
Tolerant leftist wants Melania deported for her “stupid” accent. pic.twitter.com/6xkXBJVpJV
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) July 19, 2016
The fun thing about elections is that you can easily identify the inconsistencies of both the left and the right.
Photo by Marc Nozell.
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