--- title: Republican Convention: Republicans React to Melania Trump description: The lifting of a passage from Michelle Obama's speech may have been the talk of Tuesday, but Republican delegates are unconcerned. canonical: https://time.com/4413884/watch-republicans-in-cleveland-talk-about-melania-trumps-speech/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-19T21:30:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:55.114Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Republicans in Cleveland Talk About Melania Trump og:description: How they reacted. og:url: https://time.com/4413884/watch-republicans-in-cleveland-talk-about-melania-trumps-speech/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cb55cc63abc7eed/69889c9cf887dca1e7e96ae2/melania-trump-rnc.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-CONVENTION og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Republicans in Cleveland Talk About Melania Trump twitter:description: How they reacted. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cb55cc63abc7eed/69889c9cf887dca1e7e96ae2/melania-trump-rnc.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Republicans in Cleveland Talk About Melania Trump's Speech by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 19, 2016 9:30 PM UTC  Melania Trump addresses delegates on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 18, 2016. Melania Trump addresses delegates on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 18, 2016.Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 19, 2016 9:30 PM UTC The [lifting of a key passage from Michelle Obama’s convention speech](http://time.com/4412175/republican-convention-melania-trump-michelle-obama/) may have been the talk of Tuesday, but Republican delegates are unconcerned. In interviews at the Republican national convention, Republican delegates and activists were not bothered by similarities between Melania Trump’s speech and Michelle Obama’s. “It was two lines in a very long speech and it doesn’t concern me, it doesn’t bother me,” said one. Watch interviews with Republicans at the convention above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4413884/watch-republicans-in-cleveland-talk-about-melania-trumps-speech/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4413884/watch-republicans-in-cleveland-talk-about-melania-trumps-speech/"},"headline":"Watch Republicans in Cleveland Talk About Melania Trump's Speech","datePublished":"2016-07-19T21:30:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:55.114Z","description":"The lifting of a passage from Michelle Obama's speech may have been the talk of Tuesday, but Republican delegates are unconcerned.","url":"https://time.com/4413884/watch-republicans-in-cleveland-talk-about-melania-trumps-speech/","keywords":["Republican National Convention","2016 Election","Michelle Obama","Melania Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cb55cc63abc7eed/69889c9cf887dca1e7e96ae2/melania-trump-rnc.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cb55cc63abc7eed/69889c9cf887dca1e7e96ae2/melania-trump-rnc.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-CONVENTION","caption":"Melania Trump addresses delegates on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 18, 2016.","creditText":"Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/republican-national-convention/","name":"Republican National Convention"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4413884/watch-republicans-in-cleveland-talk-about-melania-trumps-speech/","name":"Watch Republicans in Cleveland Talk About Melania Trump's Speech"}}]}] ```