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In the two weeks since Donald Trump<\/strong> was reelected president, he\u2019s tapped a string of individuals to serve as second-term advisers and cabinet members<\/a> whose common thread could be summed up by four words: What the actual fuck.<\/em> Trump wants to put a rabid anti-vaxxer in charge of the nation\u2019s health, named a man accused of having sex with a minor* as attorney general, and picked a former Real World<\/em> cast member to run the Transportation Department. Now, unsurprisingly, he\u2019s decided a person best known as a wrestling executive should preside over the Department of Education.<\/p>\n Yes, on Tuesday night, Trump announced<\/a> that he had named former longtime World Wrestling Entertainment\u00a0president and CEO Linda McMahon<\/strong> as his pick for education secretary, saying<\/a> that McMahon will \u201cmake America Number One in Education in the World\u201d by \u201csending education BACK TO THE STATES.\u201d Trump has previously pledged<\/a> to dismantle the Department of Education, and while it seems unlikely that he\u2019ll actually be able to do so, he can certainly use his cabinet pick to attempt to hack away at the agency through budget cuts and other measures.<\/p>\n As for McMahon, her credentials to run the Department of Education are unsurprisingly scant. As The Washington Post<\/em> notes<\/a>, in 2009, she once claimed to have earned a degree in education but, shocker: that wasn\u2019t actually true. Meanwhile, like any Trump nominee worth their salt, she has been associated with at least one sex scandal. Per New York Magazine<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n In October, Linda and [her husband] Vince McMahon<\/strong> were sued in a Maryland\u00a0civil court by five former \u201cring boys\u201d (basically gofers) who claimed that they had been abused by a former announcer and that the McMahons had hired him despite having knowledge of his alleged conduct. The unnamed plaintiffs were as young as 12 when they were allegedly abused by announcer Mel Phillips, who died in 2012. Phillips was fired in 1988 but rehired six weeks later with the stipulation that he stop abusing children at work, according to Business Insider. (He was fired for good in 1990 after more alleged incidents of abuse.) \u201cVince and Linda returned Phillips to the organization with the caveat that Mel steer clear of underaged boys, stop hanging around kids, and stop chasing after kids,\u201d said a witness in a 1992\u00a0defamation suit\u00a0related to the incident.<\/p>\n The McMahons and WWE have denied all wrongdoing. Linda stepped down from her executive position at WWE in 2009 to run for Senate in Connecticut, resulting in unsuccessful bids in 2010 and 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n For his part, Vince McMahon has been personally accused of sexual misconduct and infidelity numerous times; in 2022, The<\/em> Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported<\/a> that McMahon had paid out more than $12 million over 16 years to keep allegations against him quiet. Two years later, a former staffer filed suit against McMahon, claiming he\u2019d offered her a job for sex and allegedly trafficked her to other men. The lawsuit has since been paused<\/a>\u2014because prosecutors are investigating<\/a> the trafficking allegation. McMahon has denied all the allegations.<\/p>\n In other cabinet news, Trump on Tuesday named<\/a> Dr. Mehmet Oz<\/strong>\u2014long known for peddling health misinformation<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0snake oil<\/a>\u2014as his pick for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, while Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick<\/strong>\u2014who has\u00a0embraced<\/a>\u00a0Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/strong>\u2019s anti-vaccine stance\u2014was tapped<\/a> for commerce secretary.<\/p>\n *Matt Gaetz denies this.<\/em><\/p>\n If you would like to receive the Levin Report in your inbox daily, click<\/em> here<\/em><\/a> to subscribe.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n