MELANIA: “The office of first lady Melania Trump on Tuesday [5-8-18] scolded ‘opposition media’ for pointing out that Trump reused an educational booklet from the Obama-era Federal Trade Commission in unveiling her new “Be Best” campaign on childhood wellness. After Trump launched the childhood ‘well-being, social media use and opioid abuse’ initiative on Monday [5-7-18], numerous outlets, including POLITICO, reported that one of the documents distributed by the White House were a nearly identical match to a report released by the FTC under former President Barack Obama. BuzzFeed offered up the headline ‘Melania Trump Reused An Obama-Era Pamphlet For Her New Anti-Cyberbullying Campaign’ while other outlets delivered more cutting headlines, such as ‘Melania Trump Ripped Off an Old FTC Document for ‘Be Best.” There were also numerous parallels drawn between the recycled document and the incident at the Republican National Convention, where it appeared that Melania Trump reused many of the same lines from Michelle Obama’s Democratic National Convention speech in 2008.”
-Cristiano Lima, “Melania Trump aide scolds media for pointing out recycled Obama-era document,” Politico, May 8, 2018 12:28 pm