A new administration has just begun, and on President Donald Trump’s first week in office, controversy upon controversy have started to pile up. The latest issue has something to do with Trump’s inauguration cake, with many pointing out that it bore similarities to President Barack Obama’s cake when he was inaugurated in 2013.
Celebrity baker Duff Goldman, who is the star of the Food Network’s reality show “Ace of Cakes,” took to Twitter on Friday, Jan. 20, to point out the similarities between Trump’s cake and Obama’s cake. The latter cake was made by Goldman and his team at his Baltimore shop, Ace of Cakes.
Posting a split photo of both cakes on the microblogging site, Goldman wrote, “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.” The celebrity baker added a skeptical emoji at the end of his tweet.
According to Entertainment Weekly, both cakes were nine-tier creations with red and white striped bases. The topmost layers were decorated with stars, while the other layers had patriotic banners and the presidential seal. One of Goldman’s followers noted how Trump’s cake was “an exact rip-off, down to the last star.”
On Saturday, Tiffany MacIsaac, who owns the Buttercream Bakeshop in Washington D.C., released a statement on the shop’s Instagram account and revealed that they were asked to replicate Goldman’s cake for Trump’s inauguration.
“While we most love creating designs, when we are asked to replicate someone else’s work we are thrilled when it is a masterpiece like this,” She acknowledged the fact that the cake design was copied from Goldman’s 2013 creation and that a committee commissioned them to recreate the towering confection.
It appears that the cake plagiarism debacle has been settled as Goldman took to Twitter again over the weekend and said that the chef who recreated his cake for the Trump inauguration did a “fantastic job.”
It also appears that the celebrity chef and MacIsaac had an amicable talk about the issue as Buttercream Bakeshop tweeted, “Thanks for the chat @Duff_Goldman. You are a class act!” In turn, Goldman extended an invitation for the D.C. bakeshop team to drop by his bakery if ever they happen to be in Baltimore.
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