'The Robots Are Here': Melania Trump and White House Officials Spout Gibberish About AI

By Miles Klee Miles Klee Contact Miles Klee on X Contact Miles Klee by Email View all posts by Miles Klee September 4, 2025 Melania Trump at a meeting of the White House Task Force on AI Education on Sept. 4, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla Melania Trump made rare public remarks to kick off a press conference for the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education on Thursday, grandly proclaiming the potential for AI technology. I wont be surprised if AI becomes known as the greatest engine of progress in the history of the United States of America, she said in a sweeping yet mostly generic statement that itself could have been ChatGPT-generated. The First Lady is not an official member of the task force, which was established in April and is chaired by Michael Kratsios, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and a former chief of staff for venture capitalist Peter Thiel. She led the meeting by mentioning self-driving cars and robotically-assisted surgery but also heralded innovations of first-generation humanoids, presumably a reference to Teslas flashy Optimus robots. CEO Elon Musk recently predicted that the model will someday account for 80 percent of the automakers value and that the company will produce as many as one million of them by 2027 but Tesla is reportedly struggling to finish the 5,000 they were slated to complete this year, and the Optimus bots that have been rolled out for publicity stunts are always partially operated by humans, not fully autonomous. At any rate, they havent even made it to market, and humanoids certainly do not walk among us. *Reporting by Rollingstone.*