Arizona Cardinal Darnell Dockett, Mogul Donald Trump Tweet Same Message Twice: First On ABC's 'Black-ish,' Then On Ebola Outbreak

What do Arizona Cardinals defensive tackle Darnell Dockett and real estate mogul Donald Trump have in common? Not much, except for the messages they tweeted about ABC's new show Black-ish and the Ebola outbreak Wednesday, Oct. 1.

First, Trump's take on Black-ish:

How is ABC Television allowed to have a show entitled "Blackish"? Can you imagine the furor of a show, "Whiteish"! Racism at highest level?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2014

Then, three hours later, Dockett tweeted:

How is ABC Television allowed to have a show entitled "Blackish"? Can you imagine the furor of a show, "Whiteish"! Racism at highest level? — DARNELL DOCKETT (@ddockett) October 1, 2014

While it may be a valid argument, that's not the point here.

Sure, this all could be one big coincidence. People tweet about the same stuff all the time. That's how trending topics get to be trending.

But Dockett's and Trump's tweets are exactly the same, right down to the punctuation.

It seems as though Dockett used poor Twitter etiquette and copied and pasted Trump's words as his own, rather than using the "Retweet" button to attribute credit to his source.

This, of course, sent the most polite Twitter users into a frenzy:

Darnell Dockett of the AZ Cardinals found something Trump said worthy of plagiarizing. This deserves a penalty far worse than Ray Rice's.

— Adam Carl (@AdamWearsPants) October 1, 2014

And then, the same thing happened later in the day when the two decided to speak up about the news of the United States's first Ebola patient.

Trump tweeted, "Stop flights into the U.S. from West Africa immediately!" Then, 21 seconds later, Dockett tweeted the same message verbatim but added at the end, "#EBOLA."

This promtped one Twitter user to tweet:

I'll take "People I thought would never agree on anything", Alex. pic.twitter.com/oq02lwZqPe — Christian Hernandez (@cch1125) October 1, 2014

SB Nation calls them "kindred spirits." Twitter nation calls Dockett a really good copier-and-paster.

Stay tuned ...