I am convinced that the Trump team plagiarized Michele’s speech.
However, I am leaning towards the Rickroll being a coincidence. The text is similar but not an exact copy. If this was deliberate sabotage, why wouldn’t the speech writer make it closer?
Astley: Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down.
Melania: He will never, ever, give up. And, most importantly, he will never, ever, let you down.
Of course! The scales fall from my eyes, all is clarity, revealed! Melania is a trim, healthy and youthful 46 years old. He’s going to dump her, and needed an excuse. Should have been obvious, feel a bit silly for taking so long.
Tht makes sense. If they started firing people for fuck-ups like this, there would be no support team left at all by the time the election rolled around.
I don’t know about that. The way she said it sounds forced. Why not just say something like “he will never ever give up fighting for you”?
If it wasn’t for his having a really good chance of winning, you might have something. But he does, so you don’t.
Trump’s campaign has him almost neck and neck with Clinton. He has made up ground the last few weeks. AS Nate Silver points out today, Clinton’s lead is about the same as John Kerry’s was at precisely the same point in 2004, a man you may recall has the distinction of not ever being President. This isn’t funny anymore.
Who wants to bet that Trump will take up a significant chunk of airtime addressing it?
“Have you seen Melania? She’s great. And the media is being very unfair to her. OK? It’s horrible. These Republicans who said they’d fire her speechwriter are being very disloyal to me. I’d never have admitted it was plagiarized. I don’t back down. That’s why I’m a winner.”
Of course I don’t. It wasn’t a serious conjecture.
I can’t say that this surprises me at all. The only thing missing is Manafort putting his towel over his head, fully believing that the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal will just go away.
It’s as close as you can make it without making it an awkward phrasing in the speech. If it’s unintentional, it’s a hell of a coincidence.
Everybody was Trump-fu fighting
His hair was fast as lightning
Though his tan was a little bit frightening
He spoke with batshit raving
It is very difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
-Melania Trump
He’s channeling Melania Trump?
I love this theory. It’s like those urban legends about the contractor who blocks the chimney with a pane of glass and then drops the brick down the chimney after the homeowner pays in full.
Yep, for sure. Nailed her.
CNN explains rickrolling. (The last part of the article.)
For the three people who don’t know what it is.
I’m stunned that Trump has opened himself up to being called a bad husband by not defending his wife by refusing to fire the person responsible for humiliating her in front of millions.
I love my wife and, if I were in DJT’s shoes, the only way heads aren’t rolling is if I wrote those words myself. What an asshole. What sort of man just leaves her publicly hanging ass-end into the wind like this?
Oh, to be a fly on the wall whenever those two are in the same room today.
I don’t think anyone would draw a line between the speech, no firings, and Trump being a bad husband, since there was no plagiarism, since he thinks there wasn’t. What he thinks is true is true, or should be.
And anyway, you don’t think he loves Melania Trump, do you?
That’s the beauty of it. Presumably, many people read the speech beforehand. If it quoted the rickroll word for word, somebody would have noticed. The way it was done gave it a chance to escape notice and stay in the final draft.
Deliberate and hilarious.
I don’t think Donald J. Trump loves anyone or anything that isn’t named “Donald J. Trump”.
Unsurprisingly, her backstory, now getting some attention, is as fictitious as her husbands. Can you imagine if Michelle Obama had pulled anything like this?