Donald Trump's inauguration cake might have been a plagiarized work of art.
Duff Goldman, a celebrity pastry chef from Detroit, posted a photo to Twitter Friday evening portraying two nearly identical cakes: one from Barack Obama's 2013 inauguration and one from President Trump's Friday inauguration.
"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," Goldman captioned the photo, followed by an emoji displaying confusion.
The Trump White House press team did not immediately return a request for comment from the Daily News.
Goldman, the owner of the acclaimed Charm City and Cakemix bakeries, told the Washington Post ahead of Obama's inauguration ceremony that baking for the 44th President was a big deal.
When you're doing a cake like this, you know that everybody is going to be looking at it," he said at the time. "It's a lot of pressure. The more recognition you get for something that you do, the greater the pressure becomes, because more people are looking for a mistake. So you really gotta make sure your work is top-notch."
Goldman's suspicions are far from the first time Trump and his team have been accused of plagiarism and uncredited appropriation.
Duff Goldman of Charm City Cakes designed this spectacular creation for the second inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 21, 2013. The dessert included red velvet, pumpkin chocolate chip, lemon poppy, and pineapple-coconut layers.
(CHARM CITY CAKES VIA FACEBOOK)
The President's wife, Melania Trump, was accused of plagiarism after her Republican National Convention speech this fall was exposed to contain word-for-word phrases lifted from Michelle Obama's Democratic National Convention speech from 2008.
Last week, Trump's pick for deputy national security adviser, Monica Crowley, announced that she wouldn't join the new administration amid reports disclosing that she had plagiarized significant passages of her 2012 book. The reports also claimed she had plagiarized her doctoral dissertation from Columbia University and numerous columns she'd written for a conservative Washington, D.C. newspaper.
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