The 2024 United States of America Presidential Election has ended. The Republican Party’s Donald J. Trump defeated the Democratic Party’s Kamala Harris. Now, Trump’s administration has begun the transition process.
The WWE Hall of Famer has named a former WWE Executive as the Co-Chair of his Transition team. It is none other than the wife of Vincent Kennedy McMahon, Linda McMahon.
Linda McMahon has been a part of the Donald Trump Administration for a long time. She also played a key role during Donald Trump’s Presidential run from 2017 to 2021. Recently, while speaking on Univision News, Trump praised McMahon for her work in helping small businesses.
“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.”
It’s worth noting that McMahon was part of President Trump’s cabinet and served as the 25th Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. She had this role from February 14, 2017, until April 12, 2019, 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.
