TRUMP NAMES FORMER WRESTLING EXECUTIVE AS EDUCATION SECRETARY

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Donald Trump nominated Linda McMahon, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, on Tuesday to lead the Department of Education, which he has pledged to abolish.

Describing McMahon as a ā€œfierce advocate for Parentsā€™ Rights,ā€ Trump said in a statement: ā€œWe will send Education BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda will spearhead that effort.ā€

McMahon is a co-chair of Trumpā€™s transition team ahead of his return to the White House in January. It is tasked with filling some 4,000 positions in the government.

Regarding McMahonā€™s experience in education, Trump cited her two-year stint on the Connecticut Board of Education and 16 years on the board of trustees at Sacred Heart University, a private Catholic school.

McMahon left WWE in 2009 to run in vain for US Senate, and has been a major donor to Trump.

Since 2021, she has chaired the Center For The American Worker at the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute.

During the election campaign Trump promised to do away with the federal education department when he returns to the White House.

ā€œI say it all the time. Iā€™m dying to get back to do this. We will ultimately eliminate the federal Department of Education,ā€ he said in September during a rally in Wisconsin.

At the Republican convention in Milwaukee, McMahon said she was ā€œprivileged to call Donald Trump a colleague and a boss,ā€ as well as ā€œa friend.ā€

Her ties with Trump go back to her years in the professional wrestling industry ā€” she said she first met him as chief executive at WWE.

At the culmination of a staged feud, Trump once body-slammed her husband, legendary wrestling promoter Vince McMahon, and shaved his head in the middle of a wrestling ring on live television.

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In 2017, she was confirmed as the head of the Small Business Administration, which is responsible for supporting Americaā€™s millions of small businesses, which employ around half the countryā€™s private-sector workforce.

In nominating her, Trump pointed to her experience in business, helping to grow the WWE.

After leaving the administration, she served as chair of the pro-Trump America First Action SuperPAC, or political action committee.

AFP

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