Trump’s Education Chief Linda McMahon Repeatedly Calls AI ‘A1’ in School Speech

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is currently working to shut down the Department of Education at the behest of President Donald Trump, leaving her plenty of time to talk on panels about the future of schools—or lack of a future, as it were. McMahon’s appearance at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego this week included a rather amusing mix-up. McMahon repeatedly referred to AI by the name “A1.” Yes, just like the steak sauce. The video of the conference was livestreamed on YouTube, where you can hear it for yourself. “I heard, I think it was a letter or a report that I heard this morning, I wish I could remember the source, but that there is a school system that’s going to start making sure that first graders or even pre-k’s have A1 teaching every year, starting that far down in the grades,” McMahon said. And just in case it seemed like McMahon had misspoken once, she said A1 again, all while calling kids “sponges.” “And that’s just a wonderful thing. Kids are sponges. They just ab ... Read full article.