Rickrolled: Melania Trump also inexplicably plagiarized Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” [View all]
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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.
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