Jesse Williams Crushes Melania Trump’s Republican Convention Speech

After Melania Trump’s Republican National Convention speech was found to contain portions of Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention remarks, the internet created the #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes hashtag. Specifically, actor and activist Jesse Williams — whose BET Awards speech about police brutality went viral in June — inspired Twitter’s trending topic. From his fellow celebrities to politicians, pundits, and reporters on the scene in Cleveland, countless #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes suggestions were gifted to everyone’s news feeds.

Many of these contributions were quite good, but Williams’s original re-attribution of Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a woman” to Melania took the cake. Besides, given the context, what’s more appropriate than suggesting the famous activist’s lines about “so much racket” — delivered more than 150 years before at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio — were in fact uttered by America’s potential next first lady?

Not to mention the fact that Williams wasn’t done — not by a long shot, as the 34-year-old star of Grey’s Anatomy kept updating the hashtag with more possibilities. The spoken word of Martin Luther King Jr., the lyrics of Salt ‘N’ Pepa, every single “Chaka Khan” from “I Feel For You” — nothing was safe from the actor’s incessant critique of the speech’s apparent plagiarism. And it was absolutely wonderful.

(Via Global Grind)