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Why MAGA fears human teachers

Melania Trump’s robot stunt opens a new front in the GOP's war on education

Published March 30, 2026 6:45AM (EDT)

One thing Donald Trump‘s White House knows how to do is put on a spectacle so unsettling it is sure to grab attention. So it was last week when Melania Trump walked the red-carpeted hallway, dressed all in an all-white suit — accompanied by a white humanoid robot. The image, reminiscent of a wedding, quickly went viral, driven by jokes about how the First Lady had finally met someone with her own emotional caliber and how Figure 03, as it is called, was a step up from her husband. But as odd as the images were, what Melania Trump was selling was even worse: a GOP proposal to replace human teachers with robots.

“Imagine a humanoid educator named ‘Plato,'” she told attendees. “Access to the classical studies is now instantaneous: literature, science, art, philosophy, mathematics and history.”

Welcome to the latest front in the Republican war on schools. 

For decades, the GOP has been leading an assault on public education. In the 1980s and 1990s, the gripe was “stick to reading, writing and ‘rithmetic,” which implies hostility toward expanding those lessons to more complex ideas like literary analysis, critical thinking, and higher math and sciences. This talking point, which........

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