Linda McMahon and Vince McMahon are largely considered wrestling royalty due to their wrestling brand, the WWE.

John Cena’s shocking heel turn at the Elimination Chamber 2025 premium live event caused ructions not only in the professional wrestling world, but in wider mainstream media too, with WWE creating a huge viral moment.

Linda McMahon's WWE past gets referenced on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update.

The Senate voted Monday to confirm former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as the nation's education chief, a role that places her atop a department that President Trump has vilified and vowed to dismantle.

With the Senate’s narrow confirmation vote on March 3, Linda McMahon officially became the 13th Secretary of Education, vowing to lead a transformational overhaul of the nation’s

Wrestling Executive on Conn. Board The chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. has garnered a spot on the Connecticut board of education. Linda McMahon was nominated by Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell to a seat on the 11-member board and approved last month by state lawmakers. (March 2, 2009)

Linda McMahon has been appointed as the education secretary by Donald Trump in his second presidency. Approved by the Senate, she brings her prior experience as a member of Connecticut's state education board and her extensive business background.

Linda McMahon, the longtime president and CEO of WWE, is now the Secretary of Education, with the express mission to shut the department down.

World Wrestling Entertainment co-founder Linda McMahon was confirmed along party lines by the US Senate on Monday to lead the Department of Education — which is already cutting funding and offering buyouts to its workforce as President Trump has made clear he wants the agency “closed immediately.”

Linda McMahon was sworn in as the next Secretary of Education on Monday shortly after being confirmed to the post in a full Senate vote.

Ms. McMahon, who has little experience in private or public schools, will take over a department that President Trump has already begun to dismantle.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate voted Monday to confirm billionaire GOP donor and former wrestling industry executive Linda McMahon as the next secretary of the federal Department of Education.