Pranksters Interrupt Education Secretary Linda McMahon With Circus Music

Pranksters were able to play disruptive audio clips, including the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme and circus music, during an interview with Education Secretary Linda McMahon at the Young America’s Foundation student conference in Washington D.C., on Wednesday. And Trump supporters would like you to know that they aren’t bothered by it at all. Not one little bit.

McMahon, who previously worked as a professional wrestling promoter, was appointed by Trump to dismantle the Department of Education and has been doing her best to accomplish that task piece by piece. And she sat down with the former governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, to talk about the way she’s been destroying things.

Walker and McMahon, who recently referred to AI technology as “A1” (yes, like the steak sauce), talked about the typical right-wing grievances you might expect, including the existence of trans people in society (they’re against it) and the fact that college students have opposed Israel’s war on Gaza. Walker even suggested that college students who protested against the war must be financed by George Soros, a boring trope that seeks to delegitimize the concerns people have about a war that has killed at least 60,000 people.

But the talk was interrupted several times by noises, many of which were hard to decipher based on the livestream, which is available in its entirety on YouTube.

It’s unclear if someone actually “hacked” the audio system for the venue. Some reports suggest someone simply set up a soundboard nearby that was difficult to find. But whatever actually happened, it’s clear people in the room were very flustered.

The funniest moments seemed to occur when the Curb Your Enthusiasm music played very briefly, and the distinct sound of circus music started to play.

The organizers of the conference were undeterred by the disruptions. At least that’s what they said.

“This afternoon a joyless, sore-loser leftist sought to silence the 13th Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, during her fireside chat with YAF President Governor Scott Walker at our National Conservative Student Conference,” YAF communications chief Spencer Brown wrote on X. “Just as on college campuses, the left’s noise failed to delay or stop YAF and its students from spreading freedom’s principles or celebrating the many conservative wins being achieved by Sec. McMahon and the Trump administration.”

Sure, guys. You’re definitely the ones on the side of freedom. Remind us who has been arresting student protesters like Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk for the crime of saying the wrong things?