For years, Melania Trump’s online biography stated that she had “obtained a degree in design and architecture at University in Slovenia.” This was something that she had claimed at least since 2006. However, she never obtained a degree from the University of Ljubljana. The falsehood was repeated on the Republican National Convention’s program in July 2016, despite a profile of Melanie Trump by Julia Ioffe published in April 2016 in GQ which Ioffe said that “Melania decamped to Milan after her first year of college, effectively dropping out.” In response to the lie being exposed, the online biography was temporarily taken down in late July 2016, as several news outlets reported. On her Twitter account she claimed, instead, that it was taken down because “it does not reflect my current business and professional interests.”

Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican Convention on July 18, 2016, plagiarized Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic Convention on August 25, 2008. See the plagiarized sections here. When asked about the plagiarism, Melania Trump replied “I read once over it and that’s all, because I wrote it, and with as little help as possible.” However, the speech was written by Matthew Scully and John McConnell, and then rewritten by Melania Trump, who then asked Meredith McIver, staff writer for The Trump Organization, to assist her. McIver came forward as the person who actually wrote the speech for Melanie Trump. McIver admitted to using “some of the phrasing” from Michelle Obama’s speech, after Melania Trump “read me some passages from Mrs. Obama’s speech” over the phone.