Internet slams Clay Travis for accusing Joe Biden of plagiarizing Ronald Reagan's D-Day speech

NORMANDY, FRANCE: On Friday, June 7, President Joe Biden commemorated the 80th anniversary of D-Day with a presentation at Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, France.

Per Mediaite, Clay Travis, the founder of the conservative sports platform OutKick, expressed his surprise upon discovering that the 81-year-old incumbent’s speech regarding the historical significance of events at Pointe du Hoc coincided with former President Ronald Reagan's discourse on the same.

Travis took to X, formerly Twitter, to assert that President Biden had essentially replicated Reagan's remarks on Pointe du Hoc from the 40th anniversary of D-Day, implying an act of plagiarism.

It is important to note that discussing the same event by two individuals does not constitute plagiarism.

Furthermore, for an act to be considered plagiarism, it would require the presentations to contain passages that are exact duplicates or remarkably similar.

What did Clay Travis try to allege in his X post?

As presented by Travis, the speeches by President Joe Biden and former President Ronald Reagan at their respective Point du Hoc commemorations should be considered in this context.

It is noteworthy that Travis regarded the striking similarity between these sets of words as highly incriminating.

Biden: "At last the hour had come. Dawn. 6th of June, 1944…"

Reagan: "At dawn on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944…"

Biden: "Two hundred and twenty five American Rangers arrived by ship, jumped into the waves and stormed the beach."

Reagan: "Two hundred and twenty five Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs."

Biden: "Gunfire rained above them, but still, they kept coming. Nazi grenades thrown from above exploded against the cliffs, but still, they kept coming."

Reagan: "The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers at the edge of the cliffs, shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades, and the American Rangers began to climb."

Biden: "They launched their ladders, their ropes and grappling hooks, and they began to climb."

Reagan: "They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up."

Biden: "When the Nazis cut their ladders, the Rangers used the ropes and the Nazis cut the ropes. The Rangers used their hands."

Reagan: "When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When one rope was cut, a ranger would grab another and begin his climb again."

Biden: "And inch by inch, foot by foot, yard by yard, the Rangers clawed, literally clawed their way up this mighty precipice until the last they reached the top."

Reagan: "Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top."

Biden: "They breached Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, and they turned, in that one effort, the tide of the war that began to save the world."

Reagan: "And in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe."

Clay Travis faces backlash for accusing President Biden of plagiarism in D-Day speech

One X user remarked, “Historical facts are just that, facts! No plagiarizing those!" Another user said, "MAGA = MORONS."

Another user wrote, "Clay Travis is a dumb**s."

One user quipped, "But in Clay Travis’s defense, he IS a drooling moron. We can’t expect much from him."

Another X user remarked, "Trumpers are idiots."

Finally, this user tweeted, "Some folks will always be stupid."

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