Net worth: $3 Billion (Forbes, 4/3/25)
Who is Linda McMahon?
- Linda McMahon and her husband made their billions primarily off of the backs of the wrestlers they exploited for decades. Through a combination of union busting and rampant cruelty, the McMahons built a wrestling empire that they are still capitalizing on to this day.
- McMahon and her husband are longtime friends of Donald Trump who have supported him throughout the years whilst they flaunt their obscene wealth. McMahon served in the previous Trump administration as the Small Business Administrator where she mishandled funds used for a program to help mentor small business owners.
- McMahon built World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) alongside her husband, Vince McMahon. Linda and Vince expanded their wrestling empire at breakneck speed, using legal loopholes to dodge federal health regulations. The WWE has been the subject of many controversies that have implicated Linda and Vince. These include a steroid abuse scandal, the wrestler Owen Hart’s televised death, Chris Benoit’s double-murder suicide, and the ring boy sexual abuse scandal. Additionally, Vince is an alleged sexual predator.
- After leading the Small Business Administration in the first Trump administration, McMahon started a pro-Trump super PAC, which raised millions of dollars for a potential second Trump administration.
- McMahon spent the Biden years chairing the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump think tank that has blasted changes to Title IX to include LGBTQ folk while evangelizing tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
- The first iteration of the America First Policy Institute, America First Policies, contributed to January 6th organizers.
How is Linda McMahon advancing Trump’s pro-corporate, right-wing agenda?
- In the second Trump administration, McMahon was tapped to serve as the Secretary of Education, a role in which she vowed to shutter the department. She helped DOGE gut critical infrastructure such as Federal Student Aid and the Office of Civil Rights, she’s signed contracts to send offices to other agencies, which will ultimately make the work of these agencies much more confusing, and she’s happily harming students and teachers alike with a huge smile on her face.
- Linda McMahon is already getting what she wants: access to power and tax cuts. From the first administration, to now, McMahon has spent every moment that she is not explicitly campaigning and defending Trump, singing the gospel of tax cuts.
- There’s one more thing the McMahons perhaps have to gain from Trump: a pardon. The McMahons have been embroiled in a years long scandal in which they are implicated in the systemic sexual abuse of the so-called ring boys, boys and men as young as 10 years old who were ringside attendants to wrestlers. The former CEO of the WWE was directly implicated in the long standing sexual abuse scandal in which ring boys, the young men who worked ringside, alleged that high-level executives continually sexually assaulted them for years.
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