Melania Trump's Online Safety Pamphlet Seems Lifted From The Obama Administration

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Source: HUFF POST




POLITICS 05/07/2018 07:07 pm ET


Her new booklet on kids’ online activity looks lots like one the Federal Trade Commission released in 2014.


When first lady Melania Trump released a pamphlet on Monday about children’s online habits as a part of her new Be Best initiative, she gave some Twitter users deja vu.

The booklet, “Talking With Kids About Being Online,” is almost an exact replica of an Obama administration brochure ― specifically, a 2014 Federal Trade Commission booklet called “Chatting With Kids About Being Online,” the Twitter account The Rude Pundit noted.

Both booklets include nearly identical language on cyberbullying, hackers and oversharing online.

Trump’s version of the booklet had a few minor variations, including updated artwork and information on technology. The most notable difference between the two pamphlets is that the one released Monday opens with a letter from the first lady about the lessons inside the booklet and ends with information on Be Best.

Otherwise, though, the two guidebooks on cyberbullying share nearly the exact same contents.
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I think it is lazyness. She had had time to pull together something she could have called her own.



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Fun fact: The White House trumpets “Talking with Kids about Being Online" as "a booklet by First Lady Melania Trump and the Federal Trade Commission." Except for an intro, it's exactly the same thing Obama's FTC put out.

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[sandensea]

1. Again!?

If imitation is the best flattery, this is downright idolizing.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. The Trumps don't do anything anew, they just do old things again

[Frances]

3. Is Melania sending a message?

She copied Michelle’s speech. And she used the Clinton china when Macron was guest at a state dinner.

[justgamma]

4. She also

pretended to work in the garden. She pretended to read to kids.

Didn't see her talk, but in Trumpistan, if you're not the best, you're a loser.

[forgotmylogin]

5. All she'd need to do is provide references!

Write a new intro why it's important and then acknowledge this is an existing work.

It's not "a booklet by Melania Trump".

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I love using the word "seems".