How Melania Trump is the Bizarro Version of Princess Diana
The First Lady’s comic book struggles to find herself
Bizarro Michelle Obama
On the evening of July 18th, 2016, when now First Lady Melania Trump was introduced to the world at the Republican National Convention, she delivered a speech that many have claimed was plagiarized from Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention speech.
Once the gaffe was identified in the media the next day, there was at first a denial from her husband Donald Trump’s campaign team, and then there was an admission of guilt. It wasn’t her fault, some had said. It was the speechwriter.
They asked the public to believe that she was the victim, not the perpetrator of this word crime. This alibi, while protecting her from direct blame for the stumble, also correctly exposed her as a person without a real message of her own.
She wasn’t Michelle Obama. The speech sounded like Michelle Obama. She wanted to inspire like Michelle Obama.
Instead, she did the opposite. She was uninspiring.
The First Lady’s speech, for some reason, reminded me that, in the DC comic book universe, there’s a cube-shaped planet known as the Bizarro World where almost everything is the…
