It looks like something that angrily chased Dr. Who back in the ’70s, but that’s not why this giant cake may seem eerily familiar to you.
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Donald Trump‘s inauguration definitely looked familiar to Ace of Cakes‘ celebrity baker Duff Goldman, who tweeted the remarkable similarities between this particular treat and the one he baked for Obama back in 2012:
The cake on the left is the one I made for President Obama's inauguration 4 years ago. The one on the right is Trumps. I didn't make it. ? pic.twitter.com/qJXpCfPhii
— Duff Goldman (@Duff_Goldman) January 21, 2017
Those stars and banners made of icing. Those Presidential seals, equally mouthwatering. Is this moist ten-tier monstrosity an unprecedented case of shameless cake plagiarism? Perhaps.
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As Entertainment Weekly reports, Goldman was more impressed than offended by this designer knockoff dessert, and the bakery that whipped it up has since released a statement — in which one little detail will be of particular note to you:
D.C.’s Buttercream Bake Shop, hired by Trump’s administration to replicate Obama’s cake from top to bottom, casually mentions that every dime from the job will be donated to LGBTQ advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign — a sweet aside in this otherwise tawdry tale of diabolical doppelgänger desserts.
greybat
That seems very proper and fitting.
OzJosh
More interesting is the fact that Trump’s flunkies knowingly asked the bakers to plagiarise somebody else’s design. When you think back to Melania’s speech, you have to wonder whether they could muster an original idea between them.
Kangol
If you keep up this line of talk you’re being “demoralizing,” do you hear me? Didn’t you hear Sean Spicer at his peak white male fragility screeching because the media don’t bow down to Trump, who is at 40% approval, the lowest ever for an incoming president? You have to praise everything he does, as if he were an entitled little baby monster. Praise, praise, praise. No criticism. So yay for plagiarizing Obama’s inaugural cake. Truly great that it’s helping LGBTQ people as a result.
dwes09
Considering how easy it would have been to either ask the original baker to replicate it, or at least ask to replicate the design, it is telling that the designer found out after the fact. Absolute thoughtlessness and rudeness, but that is what one would expect from this administration.
And i would not be surprised if Trump (who routinely promises donations he apparently does not deliver on!) is not aware of the donation to the HRC.
Ksb1978
They’re plagiarizing cakes too? Damn!
Jack Meoff
Trump’s administration regularly copying and plagiarising from Obama’s administration only goes to show how good the Obama administration was and how clueless Trump’s administration is.