Linda McMahon expected to be named Education secretary, sources say

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Source: CNN Politics

Updated 5:52 PM EST, Tue November 19, 2024


CNN — Trump transition co-chair Linda McMahon is expected to be named as secretary of the Department of Education, four sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The decision took shape after it became clear that McMahon would be passed over for Commerce secretary. President-elect Donald Trump named his other transition co-chair Howard Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department earlier Tuesday after the Cantor Fitzgerald CEO had thrown his name into the mix for Treasury secretary, sparking a battle with hedge fund manager Scott Bessent.

McMahon served as the administrator of the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term. She was appointed in 2017 and resigned in 2019 to become the chair of America First Action, a pro-Trump super PAC. She is the board chair of the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump think tank that was formed in 2021 by McMahon, Larry Kudlow and other advisers from the first Trump administration.

AFPI has raised millions of dollars since it was founded and has been described as a “White-House-in-waiting,” planning potential policy proposals for Trump’s second term.

McMahon is also the former CEO of the WWE, which she co-founded with her husband, Vince McMahon. As head of the WWE, McMahon oversaw its transformation from a small wrestling entertainment company into a publicly traded media empire. She stepped down as CEO in 2009.

Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/19/politics/linda-mcmahon-education-secretary-trump/index.html

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Idiocracy.

[zappaman]

1. Elect a fuckin clown

get a fuckin circus

[BumRushDaShow]

2. And this one is sure to be

a full 3-ring circus too.

[The Madcap]

3. Stick a fork in it.

We are finished.

[SeattleVet]

4. The Mos Eisley Cantina Clown Car is being filled up!

With the worst of the worst possible nominees for important positions throughout what may be left of our government.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany..."

[SeattleVet]

7. tRump: "Hold my Diet Coke..."

[HereForTheParty]

6. She better than Moms for Liberty co-founder?

That was being floated.

[JoseBalow]

8. Where is he going to put the pillow clown?

[Karasu]

9. I'm surprised he even bothered when the GOP is just going to abolish the department anyway.

[JohnnyRingo]

10. I was looking for Borowitz in there somehow.

I'm tired of saying "Ya gotta be shittin' me". Do they all have to be on TV?

She knows how to scam a buck from rubes who watch reality shows on MTV, but nothing of public education.
Maybe that's the whole idea.

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11. ...

[Omaha Steve]

12. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

Speculation of unnamed sources.