President-elect Donald Trump's caller caput of Education, Linda McMahon, is not precisely the schoolhouse librarian type.
As the woman of WWE founder Vince McMahon, Linda has been heavy progressive successful the wrestling amusement merchandise for decades, overmuch similar Trump himself. She adjacent led the WWE enactment arsenic CEO.
The caller enforcement subdivision Cabinet subordinate was adjacent the recipient of convulsive wrestling moves during WWE events decades ago.
Clips of McMahon's assemblage slams person resurfaced crossed societal media successful the days since the announcement of her appointment.
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In 1 event, Glenn Thomas Jacobs, besides known arsenic "Kane," deed the caller Education caput with a tombstone piledriver that knocked her, apparently, unconscious connected an occurrence of "Monday Night Raw" successful the aboriginal 2000s.
In 1 of WWE's much infamous sagas of the era, she was featured successful a bid of skits that saw her deed her children, Stephanie and Shane McMahon. In immoderate of those skits, her children deed back.
McMahon served connected the Connecticut Board of Education for a twelvemonth starting successful 2009. She told lawmakers astatine the clip that she had a lifelong involvement successful acquisition and erstwhile planned to go a teacher.
She attempted 2 runs astatine the Senate arsenic a Connecticut Republican, losing the 2010 contention to Richard Blumenthal and the 2012 contention to Chris Murphy.
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Then-President Donald Trump shakes hands with Linda McMahon, the outgoing head of the Small Business Administration, arsenic she sits beside him aft announcing her resignation, astatine Trump's Mar-a-Lago property successful Palm Beach, Florida, connected March 29, 2019. ( REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)
McMahon past provided $6 cardinal to assistance Trump’s candidacy aft helium secured the Republican statesmanlike information successful 2016.
McMahon served arsenic head of the Small Business Administration nether Trump's archetypal word from 2017 to 2019. When she resigned, she wrote that the relation had been "immensely rewarding."
When McMahon was chosen for that role, she was praised by Blumenthal and Murphy, the 2 Connecticut Democrats who defeated her successful Senate campaigns. Blumenthal called her "a idiosyncratic of superior accomplishment and ability," portion Murphy said she was a "talented and experienced businessperson."
McMahon past chaired America First Action, a ace PAC that backed Trump’s re-election run successful 2020. When Trump mislaid to Biden, McMahon past helped commencement the America First Policy Institute to proceed advocating for Trump’s docket and hole for a imaginable instrumentality to the White House.
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Linda McMahon, erstwhile head of the Small Business Administration, speaks connected Day 4 of the Republican National Convention astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee connected July 18, 2024. (REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo)
When Trump ran for president this year, McMahon was the co-chair of his modulation squad on with Howard Lutnick, the main enforcement of fiscal services institution Cantor Fitzgerald. As portion of that role, McMahon has been helping to program Trump’s caller administration.
"As Secretary of Education, Linda volition combat tirelessly to grow "Choice" to each State successful America, and empower parents to marque the champion Education determination for families," Trump said successful a connection announcing her appointment.
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.