Slate examines Linda McMahon's appointment as Secretary of Education in Trump's second administration. McMahon's background, from professional wrestling to the Small Business Administration, is explored, highlighting her controversial past and her potential impact on education policy.
, Slate’s reluctant guide to the people who will be calling the shots now—at least for as long as they last in Washington.
Surveying all of the late-MAGA freaks and burnouts who are scheduled to join Donald Trump’s second administration , you might get the idea that the once and future president intends to surround himself exclusively with people he most recently remembers from television. But that isn’t entirely the case, because Linda McMahon—professional wrestling dynast, twice-failed GOP Senate candidate, and the former head of the Small Business Administration—is back for another round.
1619 Project, which, I swear to god, is an enduring fascination of about half a dozen D.C. lobbyists and exactlyThis will be new territory for McMahon, who, in her dealings with both her husband and the future president, has traditionally preferred to workis typically the terrain of oafs like Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene—who, beyond all of their rapacious civic predilections, clearly love being on television.
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