Layer fake! Donald copies Bam design
THIS ACT OF plagiarism really takes the cake.
Duff Goldman, a celebrity pastry chef from Detroit, pointed out that President Trump’s inauguration cake was nearly identical to the one he made for Barack Obama’s 2013 inauguration.
The company behind Trump’s celebratory confection, Buttercream Bakeshop, admitted to TMZ Saturday they were asked to copy the cake Goldman baked.
“While we most love creating original designs, when we are asked to replicate someone else’s work we are thrilled when it is a masterpiece like this one,” a spokesman for the shop told the gossip site.
Goldman, who starred on the Food Network reality series “Ace of Cakes,” posted a side-by-side photo to Twitter late Friday alongside an emoji indicating confusion.
On Saturday, he said he was flattered by the hat tip to his baking skills.
“Remembering a fantastic cake I made is awesome and the chef that re-created it for @POTUS Trump did a fantastic job. Group hug, y’all,” he wrote.
Yet the patriotic, nine-tiered recreation made for Trump was Styrofoam. All but a 3-inch slice at the bottom was inedible.
It was far from the first time Trump and his team have been accused of plagiarism and uncredited appropriation.
First Lady Melania Trump was caught last year lifting some of her Republican National Convention address word-for-word from Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention speech.
Last week, Trump’s pick for deputy national security adviser, Monica Crowley, announced she wouldn’t join the new administration amid reports that she had plagiarized significant passages of her 2012 book.
The reports also claimed she plagiarized parts of her doctoral dissertation from Columbia University and numerous columns she wrote for a conservative newspaper.
Neither the Trump press team nor Buttercream Bakeshop responded to a Daily News request for comment.