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Twitter erupted late Monday night amid revelations Melania Trump's speech to the RNC bore striking similarities to Michelle Obama's breakout speech to the Democratic Convention in 2008.

Trump had told NBC before her convention appearance that she'd written the speech with "as little help as possible." Two paragraphs from the speech appear to be almost identical to Obama's 2008 address.

Related: Did Melania Trump Plagiarize Michelle Obama in Speech?

Journalist Jarrett Hill was one of the first to note the similarities — sending social-media into overdrive when he pulled out the suspect passages.

"irony" is the Trump campaign plagiarising a speech about the importance of hard work https://t.co/oPDWy6GdxW pic.twitter.com/C9jpb08dLi — Josh Butler (@JoshButler) July 19, 2016

If you plagiarized the way Melania Trump did tonight on an assignment as an undergrad you would be expelled.



They want to RUN THE COUNTRY. — MAX IM A KOOPA (@meakoopa) July 19, 2016

And then came the humor...

We go now live to Michelle Obama for comment on Melania's seeming plagiarism of her speech pic.twitter.com/nozcsg2c88 — Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) July 19, 2016

"I'd like to thank two of my speech writers, Copy and Paste, for their help in preparing my remarks" #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes — Jim Stilwell (@JimmyHack) July 19, 2016

And #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes began trending worldwide:

"Work, work, work, work, work, work

He say me have to

Work, work, work, work, work, work!" #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes — jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) July 19, 2016

"You get a speech, you get a speech, EVERYBODY gets a speech." #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes pic.twitter.com/ZJYH9w6m68 — Blaine Searson (@blainesearson34) July 19, 2016

"This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."#FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes pic.twitter.com/p6v5i0Fb0V — Parker (@Parker9_) July 19, 2016

Michelle: "She said what???"

Barack: "Oh, the tweets are going to be awesome!" #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes #YoureFired pic.twitter.com/mbTw69mAGc — Bob Driver - Da Bob (@rwdriver) July 19, 2016

#FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation.." — Jackée Harry (@JackeeHarry) July 19, 2016