MSNBC's Rachel Maddow trolls Education Secretary Linda McMahon over major 'AI' pronunciation gaffe

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow took jabs at Linda McMahon as well as President Donald Trump’s second administration after the secretary of education failed to pronounce "AI."

During a recent panel discussion in San Diego, California, McMahon got confused between "AI" and "A1," according to the Irish Star.

Rachel Maddow takes a jibe at Linda McMahon following her major gaffe

In the opening minutes of her Friday, April 11, show, Rachel Maddow paused to highlight the latest blunder to emerge from President Donald Trump’s administration, according to Raw Story.

She played the clip of McMahon where she said, "There is a school system that is going to start making sure that first graders or even pre-Ks have A1 teaching every year starting that far down in the grades – and that’s just a wonderful thing."

A few moments later, the education secretary said, "Kids are sponges. They just absorb everything. It wasn’t all that long ago that it was, ‘Oh, we’re gonna have internet in our schools, woo.’ Now, let’s see A1 and how can that be helpful."

Maddow appeared stunned by the mix-up and said during the show, "What are we talking about here?"

She quipped, "Now I myself, I love me some A1. It’s tangy. It really brings out the best in a steak or whatever," referring to the A1 Steak Sauce, and added, "But A1 – I mean it's not like an education term of art like K-12 or something, right? Or pre-K, you know what I mean? Like A1 is a whole different thing."

Maddow further said, "This is an anagram that you spell out. It’s not like NASA, where you don't say N-A-S-A, you just like pronounce the anagram as if it's a word. This is the whole anagram spelled out. It’s artificial intelligence ‘A’ and then ‘I’ – ‘AI’ – and she cannot spell that!"

She also mentioned, "So now we've got tangy, salty A1 in all the schools. And that will somehow be facilitated by abolishing the US Department of Education, which, you know, it'll be delicious."

Criticizing the Trump administration, she concluded, "Everything they're doing is so terrible."

Maddow had previously highlighted the infamous "Signalgate" debacle as well as Trump's accidental phone call to his estranged former National security advisor, HR McMaster, whom he cursed out, as per the outlet.

Internet trolls Linda McMahon for her AI gaffe

Joining Rachel Maddow, several netizens trolled Linda McMahon as she failed to pronounce "AI" and ended up calling it 'A1' during a recent panel discussion in San Diego, California.

One wrote, "I’ve seen enough. Get rid of the education department immediately," and another added, "Could we blame auto-correct? Lol."

A person joked, "Nice to see our education is in A # 1 hands. What could go wrong?" whereas someone else quipped, "I always like a little A1 with my Tariffs..... Another in the long list of moron appointees."

"Education is the real enemy of MAGA, which is exactly why someone like Linda was sent to destroy it. She wasn’t even reading from a paper and still said 'A1' instead of AI. That’s how she prepared," an individual stated. 

"How the hell is steak sauce going to be helpful on our schools?" one more joked. "Feels like a tech nightmare. How do people like this get into power?" another person asked. 

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