Donald Trump thanked Linda McMahon for her efforts during the pandemic… for a job she didn’t have at the time.
Trump mentioned McMahon during a Univision Noticias town hall with Latino voters on Wednesday night. One guest who asked Trump a question noted that the United States national debt is $35 trillion and it doesn’t stop there. What will he do to improve and reduce the debt and pay alongside its interests?
Donald Trump’s response to question about the national debt
“We have record national debt, we’ve never seen anything like it before,” Trump replied. “We were getting ready to start paying down debt. And then we got hit with a thing called COVID, or the ‘China Virus,’ and that had to be the focus. We needed to help businesses stay in business and if we didn’t do the job we did — Linda McMahon did a great job, Small Business Association — if we didn’t do the job that we did, you wouldn’t have any companies [right now]. You would be in a depression like in 1929.”
Linda McMahon was part of President Trump’s cabinet and served as the 25th Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. She held this role from February 14, 2017, until April 12, 2019. This was nearly a year before the first lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States. While announcing her resignation, McMahon shared that she was transitioning to chair America First Action, a pro-Trump Super PAC.
Jovita Carranza was the Administrator of the Small Business Administration when COVID-19 reached the United States, taking over for acting Administrator Chris Pilkerton in January 2020.
McMahon has been involved in politics for several years, running as a Republican nominee for a United States Senate seat (representing Connecticut). McMahon lost both bids, losing to Richard Blumenthal in 2010 and Chris Murphy in 2012.
