Posted on 07/28/2016 12:21:17 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
The son of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says he’s “honored” President Obama would “plagiarize” a line from his Republican National Convention speech.
“I’m honored that POTUS would plagiarize a line from my speech last week. Where’s the outrage?” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted Thursday, following Obama’s Democratic National Convention speech on Wednesday night in Philadelphia.
Last week, when addressing the Republican convention in Cleveland, Trump Jr. said: "There’s so much work to do. We will not accept the current state of our country because it’s too hard to change. That’s not the America I know. We’re going to unleash the creative spirit and energy of all Americans. We’re going to make our schools the best in the world for every single American of every single ethnicity and background.”
On Wednesday, Obama said: “What we heard in Cleveland last week wasn’t particularly Republican, and it sure wasn’t conservative. What we heard was a deeply pessimistic vision of a country where we turn against each other and turn away from the rest of the world. There were no serious solutions to pressing problems, just the fanning of resentment and blame and anger and hate. And that is not the America I know. The America I know is full of courage, and optimism, and ingenuity. The America I know is decent and generous.”
Trump Jr.'s accusation of Obama of plagiarizing the line, “That is not the America I know” comes a week and a half after Melania Trump faced backlash for using parts of first lady Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention speech.
The woman who wrote Melania Trump’s convention speech, Meredith McIver, took responsibility for copying portions of that speech and offered to resign as an in-house writer for Donald Trump last week, though the GOP nominee refused to accept it.
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haha...like father like son. The Trump men sure know how to yank their opponents chains. Love it.
Trump Jr. tweets ironically that Obama plagiarized him on Wednesday. Washington Post feels obliged to respond. Trump Sr. campaign gets another few column inches of free publicity.
Trump sarcastically asks Russia or anyone who might have Hillary’s 30,000 erased yoga routines and cookie recipes to hand them over in return for an attaboy from the US press. The entire press goes bonkers with a false narrative. Anyone who can read or hear knows it’s a false narrative. And Trump gets thousands of column inches of free publicity.
The press does not know how to recognize irony and sarcasm directed at them. Extremist zealots seldom do.
Meh
The Dims also plagiarized their slogan “stronger together” from this BBC video. (See 29:35 and 52:51)
Don Jr. is following in daddy's footsteps.
Yep, very funny
Lol. You could see it coming.
Obama’s speech writer should apologize and be fired.
Don JR. has his Dad’s sense of humor - love it!
I would like the following for my bucket list:
Donald Trump Sr serves in the Oval Office for the next 8 years......
Followed by Donald Trump JR for the next 8 years....
Followed by Eric Trump for the next 8 years....
Followed by IVANKA Trump—the first female President-—for the next 8 years.
After 32 years of running this country like a real business, America would be GREAT AGAIN......
I think you need to lay off the Trump pipe.
We founded this country to NOT have the situation that you are describing.
I like the pushback in both father and son. THIS is what an opposition party looks like.
It's about darn time though.
I watched Trump's press conference with the lefty reporters yesterday. It was a thing of beauty.
CGato
By that time they’d be responsible for every member of the Supreme Court.
Much as I like the Trump family we don’t need another presidential dynasty.
LOL
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