By accident or by intention? A celebrity pastry chef who designed Barack Obama's 2013 inauguration cake suggested that the cake for newly sworn-in President Donald Trump is almost identical to his design.
Duff Goldman, who starred on the Food Network's reality TV show "Ace of Cakes," posted a picture on Twitter comparing the two cakes side by side.
The celebrity baker's inauguration cake was a nine-tier creation with a red striped base engraved with the presidential seal, patriotic bunting and several silver stars on the top.
"The cake on the left is the one I made for President Obama's inauguration 4 years ago. The one on the right is Trump's. I didn't make it," Goldman tweeted Friday evening, followed by an emoji displaying confusion. It seems that Goldman suggested Trump's cake could have been plagiarized.
His tweet went viral on social media with more than 281,000 likes and 136,000 retweets as of early Monday.
"It's an exact ripoff -- down to the last star. 100% Plagiarism," commented Twitter user BradmanTV below Goldman's post.
Buttercream Bakeshop, the company who made Trump's inauguration cake, took to Instagram to explain the situation on Saturday morning.
"@duff_goldman originally created this for Obama's inauguration 4 years ago and this year's committee commissioned us to re-create it," read the bakeshop's caption to a photo of their cake.
Tiffany MacIsaac, owner of Buttercream Bakeshop, told The Washington Post that she encouraged the client to use the 2013 cake as inspiration.
"They said, 'Nope, they want this exact cake. It's perfect.' and we said, 'Great,' " MacIsaac told the Post.
In response, Goldman tweeted later that "Remembering a fantastic cake I made is awesome and the chef that re-created it for @POTUS (President of the United States) Trump did a fantastic job."
It was not the first time that the Trumps were involved in plagiarism-related troubles.
In July, Melania Trump, now first lady, was accused of copying portions of then first lady Michelle Obama's 2008 address.
