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Melania mocked mercilessly by Twitter (of course) with #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes


Just when you thought you’ve seen it all  (and it's only Tuesday!) at the Republican National Convention -- the anti-Trump protesters, the booing and the lineup of "celebrity" guest speakers -- things took a turn for the worse as Melania Trump's speech turned into a fiasco thanks to cries of plagiarism.

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Indeed, a few things Trump said had a very familiar ring -- in fact, they mirror sections that Michelle Obama gave in her 2008 convention speech.

For those who enjoy a good hashtag, though, the brewing scandal, mocked at #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes, has given us some pretty awesome tweets.

Walbert Castillo is a recent University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduate and a Paste BN College intern.

This story originally appeared on the Paste BN College blog, a news source produced for college students by student journalists. The blog closed in September of 2017.