Hey, maybe it's just a coincidence.
One day after speaking of one another with palpable derision during the third presidential debate, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were exchanging light-hearted barbs at a white-tie charity event on Thursday night in New York.
At one point, the Republican presidential nominee made a joke about the two bumping into each other, after which Clinton said, "Pardon me." He then stopped and let people gather the double meaning.
The joke, a clear reference to Trump's repeated assertions that Clinton belongs in jail, led to raucous laughter. Even Clinton herself laughed. But the New York Times' Alex Burns noted over Twitter that the joke also felt very familiar.
There is some clear variance between the two jokes, but the resemblances are also notable, especially considering Trump made another joke on Thursday about accusations that his wife Melania's Republican National Convention speech in July was plagiarized from Michelle Obama's Democratic National Convention speech in 2008.
"Michelle Obama gives a speech and everyone loves it. They think she's absolutely great. My wife, Melania, gives the exact same speech and people get on her case!" Trump joked on Thursday.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article misstated that the event was black-tie.