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Secretive ex-president has big ideas on AI, TheBlaze says

TheBlaze says the former president, out of office for nearly a decade, is mentoring rising Democratic leaders on how government should manage artificial intelligence; the headline withholds his name.

On air: Brock Thunderson and Vera Bullock on #Trending
Published 1:55 AM ET, Sunday, October 11, 2026

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Watch it as it aired: Brock Thunderson and Vera Bullock on this story, from #Trending at 1:55 AM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are TheBlaze's, the jokes are ours.

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First reported by TheBlaze: “Guess which secretive former president has big ideas about how AI should control you”.
Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 11, 2026, at 1:55 AM ET on #Trending, by Brock Thunderson and Vera Bullock.
Topics: AI.

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TheBlazeGuess which secretive former president has big ideas about how AI should control you

What BBN said about it

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTheBlaze says a secretive former president, left office nearly a decade ago, now has big ideas about how government should handle artificial intelligence.
Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSecretive? He's a pressure system. You feel him, you can't see him.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe piece says he's grooming the next generation of party leaders on it.
Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistGrooming. Like a poodle.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBrock, no. It's mentoring. A beautiful, healing, unsupervised mentoring.
Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistTen years of calm, then a quiet front over the robots. I've seen this on radar. It never ends well.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorUnnamed.
Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistI asked the overnight chatbot who he was. It also declined to comment. Hashtag: mysterybreeze.

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