--- title: White House Copied ExxonMobil's Press Release description: The White House copied a portion of its statement praising ExxonMobil's announcement canonical: https://time.com/4692972/white-house-exxonmobil-copy-statement/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-07T00:26:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T11:07:12.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: The White House Copied Exxon's Press Release in a Statement Praising Exxon og:description: The White House statement copied a full paragraph from Exxon's press release og:url: https://time.com/4692972/white-house-exxonmobil-copy-statement/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b5584687d0d5c54/6988bd3ef887dc53f4e9954e/exxon-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Trading On The Floor Of The NYSE As U.S.Stocks Fall With Industrials On Trump Border Tax Comments og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The White House Copied Exxon's Press Release in a Statement Praising Exxon twitter:description: The White House statement copied a full paragraph from Exxon's press release twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b5584687d0d5c54/6988bd3ef887dc53f4e9954e/exxon-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The White House Copied Exxon's Press Release in a Statement Praising Exxon > Sponsored content. 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A monitor displays Exxon Mobil Corp. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017.Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 13, 2023 11:07 AM UTCPublished: Mar 7, 2017 12:26 AM UTC The White House copied a portion of its statement praising [ExxonMobil’s announcement](http://fortune.com/2017/03/06/donald-trump-exxonmobil-jobs/) on Monday that it would invest in manufacturing projects in the U.S. from Exxon. The [White House statement](https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/06/president-trump-congratulates-exxon-mobil-job-creating-investment), released about 34 minutes after Exxon [put out its announcement](http://news.exxonmobil.com/press-release/exxonmobil-plans-investments-20-billion-expand-manufacturing-us-gulf-region), copied a full paragraph from Exxon’s statement that explained the company’s investment plans. > [](https://twitter.com/%5Fcingraham/status/838874217852567552) Through the statement and subsequent tweets, President Trump heavily complimented Exxon, which was most recently run by Trump’s [Secretary of State Rex Tillerson](http://time.com/4629505/rex-tillerson-exxon-working-class/), for promoting job growth in the U.S. A spokesman for Exxon said the company shared information about the announcement with the White House. Plagiarism has cropped up among Trump’s team before — First Lady Melania Trump [used phrases](http://time.com/4412175/republican-convention-melania-trump-michelle-obama/?iid=sr-link3) from Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention speech during the 2016 Republican National Convention and pundit Monica Crowley turned down a job offer in the Trump administration after being accused of [plagiarizing parts of her book and Ph.D dissertation](http://time.com/4635841/monica-crowley-donald-trump-plagiarism/). 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