US Education secretary blasted for embarrassing grammatical errors in threatening letter to Harvard, ET Education
US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon on Monday sent an angry and sharply worded letter to Harvard University President Alan Garber, criticizing the Ivy League institution’s handling of antisemitism on campus and accusing it of systemic failures in leadership and policy. But this instead triggered a nationwide grammar lesson, directed squarely at herself. She got the letter back with full grammar and spelling corrections in red ink.
McMahon posted a letter on X addressed to Harvard president Dr Alan Garber, informed the Ivy League institution it would no longer be eligible for federal grants. She accused the university of violating federal law, ethical standards, and academic principles. But the letter’s content was not what caught the internet’s attention, it was the writing.
Linda McMahon’s spelling errors in letter to Harvard
In her nearly thousand-word declaration, Secretary McMahon representing the Trump administration, lambasted Harvard for its admissions policies, staffing protocols, and overall leadership. She delivered a stark message to America’s oldest private Ivy League institution: no more federal research grants would be forthcoming.ALSO READ: Warren Buffett’s life wisdom: When he revealed “two turning points” in his life
“Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right,” she asserted in her rebuke. McMahon berated Harvard for allegedly misusing government funds not for educational betterment but for illicit activities. She continued with an interrogation of the origins and motives of Harvard scholars, insinuating hateful sentiments among them, and demanded transparency from the esteemed 388-year-old establishment regarding these issues.
McMahon went on: “Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the federal government, since none will be provided.”
“Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these ‘students’ come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country-and why is there so much HATE?” McMahon questioned in the initial section of her three-page correspondence.
“Harvard University has made a mockery of this country’s higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus,” McMahon charged.
“This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing ‘remedial math’ program for undergraduates,” the Education Secretary announced. “Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this ‘acclaimed university’? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected?”
McMahon gets trolled
Critics were quick to denounce McMahon’s comments. Investigative reporter Roger Sollenberger sarcastically inquired, “Did you use A1 to write this,” poking fun at the Education Secretary’s gaffe where she confused artificial intelligence (AI) with the well-known steak sauce (A1).
“Harvard University has made a mockery of this country’s higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus,” McMahon charged.
“This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing ‘remedial math’ program for undergraduates,” the Education Secretary announced. “Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this ‘acclaimed university’? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected?”
Trump’s Education Secretary mocked
Critics were quick to denounce McMahon’s comments. Investigative reporter Roger Sollenberger sarcastically inquired, “Did you use A1 to write this,” poking fun at the Education Secretary’s gaffe where she confused artificial intelligence (AI) with the well-known steak sauce (A1).
“Whoever wrote this is barely literate,” asserted The Independent’s White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg.
Veterans’ activist and podcaster Fred Wellman asked, “Did a high school kid write this? You’re the Secretary of ‘Education’ and this is a chaotic mess of bad grammar and illiterate rambling. You poked the bear and you’re too stupid to even know it.”
Maya Sen, who teaches public policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, added: “Informing a private entity it will no longer be eligible for government contracts in part because a Democrat sits on its board.”
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