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First Lady Melania Trumps response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., being copied from words spoken by former First Lady Michelle Obama is an unproven claim. A meme is circulating social media positing that Trump again copied words from Michelle Obama while denouncing violence in Charlottesville. However, that claim is likely a spoof.

Where did this meme originate? On Aug. 12, 2017, Trump publicly responded to violent events that had taken place earlier that day at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville by tweeting the following. Our country encourages freedom of speech, but lets communicate w/o hate in our heart, Trump wrote. No good comes from violence.

Trump previously was met with criticism for delivering a speech before the Republican National Convention which included passages identical in content and specific phrasing to an address given before the Democratic National Convention in 2008 by Michelle Obama.

As a result, a good number of spoof items were posted online that played on the idea of various prominent political figures plagiarizing each others words.

Now, social media users are debating whether Trump once again stole words from Obama. Shortly after Trumps Twitter response, an image began circulating online alleging that Trump had likewise taken those words without credit from a comment made by Obama over a year earlier.

However, Snopes is reporting that the above meme is most likely a spoof. While not being able to completely rule out the possibility that Obama might at some time have expressed something like the thought attributed to her here, there is no record of her having done so.

Here are some examples of people discussing the meme on social media.

Rather, the above meme is most likely having fun at an earlier controversy involving Trump and Obama and the current crisis facing the country and President Donald Trumps administration.

White nationalists had assembled in Charlottesville to vent their frustration against the citys plans to take down a statue of Confederal Gen. Robert E. Lee. Counter-protesters massed in opposition. A few hours after violent encounters between the two groups, a car drove into a crowd of people peacefully protesting the rally. The driver was later taken into custody.

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