Seth Meyers takes a skeptical closer look at the RNC's dramatic beginning
On Tuesday's Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host took a closer look at the Republican National Convention's rocky start.
First, the convention lacked "Trump's typical flair," Meyers said. "The biggest names were B-list celebrities like Duck Dynasty star Willie Robertson and no-list celebrities like the poor man's Ralph Macchio, Scott Baio." Baio was an especially surprising choice to speak since "if you're old enough to remember, they barely let him talk on Happy Days," Meyers quipped. Of course, the main story was Melania Trump and the plagiarism charges leveled against her (similarities abound between the speech she delivered and an address given by Michelle Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention). "Melania did it," Meyers said. "She found something less original than being a model married to an old millionaire."
To "rip off a passage about the value of hard work" was a "truly astonishing display of incompetence," Meyers continued, made worse by Trump supporters "trotting out the flimsiest excuses for the mistake rather than just owning up to it." As far as Meyers is concerned, the real issue is that Trump says he'll be a "great president" because he's a "great manager" who hires the best people, but making a "dumb mistake like a plagiarized speech at a convention undercuts that." Watch the video below. Catherine Garcia
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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