By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-19 23:21:57 | Updated at 2024-11-20 01:30:11
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Donald Trump has tapped his transition co-hair and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) co-founder Linda McMahon as his Education Secretary.
The 76-year-old was in the running to be the president-elect's pick to be Commerce Secretary but eventually lost out to Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick, CNN first reported.
McMahon set up WWE with husband Vince in 1980 and would take on-screen roles before she left in 2009 to run for the Senate in Connecticut a year later.
With Vince she saw the company turn into a publicly-traded media empire.
During Trump's first administration she served as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, but now her loyalty has paid off with a more senior cabinet role.
She is the board chair of the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump think tank that was formed in 2021.
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Donald Trump has tapped his transition co-hair and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) co-founder Linda McMahon as his Education Secretary
McMahon set up WWE with husband Vince in 1980 and would take on-screen roles before she left in 2009 to run for the Senate in Connecticut a year later. They are pictured together in 2013
