{"id":23125,"date":"2016-07-19T15:05:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T22:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23125"},"modified":"2016-07-19T15:05:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T22:05:56","slug":"melania-trump-four-score-and-seven-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/19\/melania-trump-four-score-and-seven-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump: \u201cFour score and seven years ago \u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(I didn&rsquo;t want to steal anyone&rsquo;s thunder, so I waited.&nbsp; But I think I can go ahead with this post now.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since I probably won&rsquo;t be putting together a dedicated &ldquo;Friday Fun&rdquo; (although I&rsquo;m feeling much better), I thought I might do some quickie &ldquo;Fun&rdquo; observations if and when they become available, courtesy of the GOP <s>Circus<\/s> &hellip; <s>Clown Show<\/s> &hellip; Convention.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the focus today has been on <strong>Melania Trump<\/strong> plagiarizing the true sentiments and actual words of <strong>Michelle Obama<\/strong>.&nbsp; Although probably everyone has seen it, I wouldn&rsquo;t want anyone to miss the front page headline of today&rsquo;s <em>&ldquo;New York Daily News&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Melania-Trump_Plagiarized_Michelle-Obama_Headline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Melania-Trump_Plagiarized_Michelle-Obama_Headline\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23126\" height=\"884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Melania-Trump_Plagiarized_Michelle-Obama_Headline.jpg\" width=\"749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Melania-Trump_Plagiarized_Michelle-Obama_Headline.jpg 749w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Melania-Trump_Plagiarized_Michelle-Obama_Headline-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it&rsquo;s still not clear who is actually to blame for this major Trumpism snafu of stealing from FLOTUS, but thanks to Google I was able to find a photo of Melania&rsquo;s speechwriters:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Melania-Trump_Speechwriters_Copy-Paste-Babies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Melania-Trump_Speechwriters_Copy-Paste-Babies\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23127\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Melania-Trump_Speechwriters_Copy-Paste-Babies.jpg\" width=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Melania-Trump_Speechwriters_Copy-Paste-Babies.jpg 583w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Melania-Trump_Speechwriters_Copy-Paste-Babies-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And while surfing the inner tubes, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2016\/07\/the-worst-t-shirt-republican-national-convention\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mother Jones<\/em><\/a>, I came across another t-shirt that&rsquo;s being sold just blocks away from the Convention center that I&rsquo;m tempted to get for TC:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump_T-Shirt_Candidate-w-Some-Balls_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump_T-Shirt_Candidate-w-Some-Balls_01\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23128\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump_T-Shirt_Candidate-w-Some-Balls_01.jpg\" width=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump_T-Shirt_Candidate-w-Some-Balls_01.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump_T-Shirt_Candidate-w-Some-Balls_01-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a little hard to make out, and sadly the only one I can find online is in charcoal gray.&nbsp; But at least you can make out the graphic graphics much easier on this one.&nbsp; <em>(Should I have given this a <strong>&ldquo;Barf Bag Alert&rdquo;<\/strong> &ndash; or maybe a <strong>&ldquo;NSFW&rdquo;<\/strong> warning &ndash; or maybe both?)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump_T-Shirt_Candidate-w-Some-Balls_02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump_T-Shirt_Candidate-w-Some-Balls_02\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23129\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump_T-Shirt_Candidate-w-Some-Balls_02.png\" width=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump_T-Shirt_Candidate-w-Some-Balls_02.png 727w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump_T-Shirt_Candidate-w-Some-Balls_02-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I&rsquo;ll hold out for the neon <span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;\nmso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA\"><font color=\"#000000\">chartreuse <\/font><\/span>green one.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s so much more reflective of Trump&rsquo;s &hellip; <em>hmmm<\/em> &hellip; <em>&ldquo;class&rdquo;<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I didn&rsquo;t want to steal anyone&rsquo;s thunder, so I waited.&nbsp; But I think I can go ahead with this post now.) Since I probably won&rsquo;t be putting together a dedicated &ldquo;Friday Fun&rdquo; (although I&rsquo;m feeling much better), I thought I might do some quickie &ldquo;Fun&rdquo; observations if and when they become available, courtesy of the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/19\/melania-trump-four-score-and-seven-years-ago\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}