The bizarre story of Trump’s plagiarized inauguration cake

It all started when baker Duff Goldman of Ace Of Cakes fame tweeted out a photo of the Trump inauguration cake and a picture of the Obama inauguration cake.

As Goldman points out, Donald Trump's inauguration cake looks suspiciously like the one he made for Barack Obama in 2013. But the story got even better when the bakery that made the cake in question chimed in too:

So not only did Buttercream Bakeshop happily give Goldman credit while tacitly admitting how strange it was to be asked to replicate someone else’s design, the bakery also proudly noted that all proceeds from the cake would be donated to the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT civil rights group. But the story has one more twist too:

The cake isn't even real. It's a prop made out of Styrofoam except for a three-inch slice for ceremonial cutting, which Trump and Mike Pence did with a sword. So, yes, if you need a metaphor for the incoming administration, Trump blatantly stealing Obama’s cake but making it a fake one works quite nicely.

-BoingBoing.net