Just who is Melania Trump and why does she keep doing this to herself?
Learning from our mistakes is one of those things that helps define us as human beings. Licking frosted metal, hitting on your best friend’s sibling, touching a plate to see if really is as hot as the waitress says it is. These are the kind of things that light up our frontal lobes long before a repeat performance is authorized. An electro-chemical stop sign pays a visit to the pre-frontal cortex and delivers a most urgent message:
Don’t, just don’t.
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Which is why it’s so shocking that Melania just got her fingers burned. Again.
You have to feel sorry for her.
Melania is in a difficult position. Delivering second language speeches to crowds of GOP faithful with a rabid dislike of foreign accents would give any Slovenian trophy wife pause. Is it any wonder that she has made mistakes?
Sure, she plagiarized Michelle Obama’s speech, an unforgivable lapse of judgement. But as most political experts will tell you, piecing a speech together by googling abstract nouns like ‘peace, love and hope’ is fraught with danger. Chances are, somebody has already used those words before.
How was she supposed to know that?
After a spell in the naughty corner lasting several weeks she was rolled out again, this time in her new position as enabler-in-chief. Speaking to CNN she related her mild annoyance upon hearing of her husband’s boasts of sexual assault:
“I said to my husband that, you know, the language was inappropriate. It’s not acceptable. And I was surprised, because that is not the man that I know…as you can see from the tape, the cameras were not on — it was only a mic. And I wonder if they even knew that the mic was on.”
I think it’s fair to say that they did not know.
Still, she was back! She was delivering unblinking rote memorized soundbite after soundbite and looking fabulous while doing it. All was forgotten, she’d been forgiven.
It was time to let her give another speech.
What could possibly go wrong?
Fool Me Twice
It started well enough. Speaking on Thursday in Berwyn, Pennsylvania about her life in Slovenia, she described what a special place America had always held in her heart, saying:
“America meant, if you could dream it, you could become it.”
It took less than an hour for people to realize that she had plagiarized again. But she hadn’t lifted the line from famousquotes.com or read it on a dish towel sold in a souvenir shop or anything like that. Oh no. She stole this particular vignette of wisdom from none other that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s ex-wife, Marla Maples.
Seriously, what the living fuck? Just who is Melania Trump and seriously, why does she keep doing this to herself?
You Couldn’t Write It
It’s not just that she lifted another line. It’s not just that of all the people she could have plagiarized she happened upon the two most embarrassing ones imaginable; the current first lady and her own husband’s ex-wife. What’s striking about the whole debacle is the absolute bare-assed incompetence of Team Trump. That nobody was checking her speech line by line with a checklist of who not to steal lines from: “Ex wife? Check. Miss Piggy? Check. Eva Braun? Check!”
The whole campaign staff act like misogynistic sitcom writers from the 1970s confessing to their producer that they have a hard time writing lines for women.
Yeah, no shit.
Meanwhile, we can only sit and wait for Melania’s next speech and try to guess who she will steal lines from next. Maybe she’ll outdo herself and read out one of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s speeches?
At this point nothing about the election could surprise any one of us.
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