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Donald Trump Jr.'s plagiarism tweet goes viral

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By Adrian Crawford
July 29, 2016

The morning after President Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Donald Trump Jr. took to social media to call out the commander-in-chief for plagiarism -- but it turned out it was all for laughs.

Trump Jr. wrote on Twitter he was "honored POTUS would plagiarize a line from my speech last week. Where's the Outrage?" The phrase that caught Trump Jr.'s attention was "that is not the America I know."

But he later clarified it was all in good humor.

His tweet comes a little more than a week after it emerged that his stepmother, Melania Trump, delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention that lifted passages from an address first lady Michelle Obama  delivered at the Democratic National Convention in 2008.

According to a transcript from NPR, Obama said "that is not the America I know," while Bustle's transcription of Trump Jr.'s RNC speech included the phrase "that's not the America I know."

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