Rep. Jahana Hayes (CN-05) made mincemeat out of Linda McMahon. OMG, it was ugly. It was as theatrical as anything McMahon ever witnessed or participated in on the wrestling circuit except the passion here isn’t fake, it’s real. McMahon was speaking before Congress and she had a unique situation going on. She’s got somebody sitting next to her who feeds her answers on index cards. Wow. Kinda brings to mind the SAT college cheating scam where movie stars paid people to get their kids into college. The moral in both places is maybe when you’re in that far over your head, you don’t use a cheat sheet or pay somebody to take your test or front you the answers. Just acknowledge your limitations. Here is the most ignorant and unqualified Secretary of Education ever to be appointed. And yes, that is including Betsy DeVos.
She says that because the woman sitting next to McMahon has been writing answers on index cards and handing them to her for the entire hearing because the Sec of Ed doesn’t know anything about Ed. https://t.co/8rwjEcafdF
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 4, 2025
“I can look at whatever card I want.” BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! If this woman was any stupider, she would have to have somebody escort her to the potty so she didn’t get lost. This hearing was a farce.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s Senate budget hearing on Tuesday featured falsehoods that were either personally uttered by the secretary or went unchecked as a senator spread them.
McMahon, the former professional wrestling executive who was roundly mocked recently for referring to artificial intelligence — or “AI” — as “A1,” has struggled to slough off accusations that she’s out of her depth and ill-informed about the department she’s leading. And Tuesday didn’t help her cause.
In one instance, McMahon and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., appeared to flub a simple math equation while discussing funding for TRIO, a federal program that helps low-income students afford college. Kennedy asked McMahon about $1.58 billion he said was being spent annually on the program, which he then calculated as amounting to more than $1 trillion over 10 years. This glaring error — which Kennedy repeated several times in his line of questioning — went unchecked by McMahon.
But Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., didn’t let either of them slide on the faulty math.
“I’m not a great mathematician, but I think you were talking about $1 trillion? I believe $1.5 billion times 10 is $15 billion. That’s a little bit off from $1 trillion,” he said.
McMahon interrupted to say, “I think the budget cut’s $1.2 billion.” A seemingly unimpressed Reed responded by saying that would mean $12 billion had been spent over a decade — not $1 trillion.
“OK,” McMahon said. […]
The Trump administration has no shortage of individuals who seem to lack a basic understanding of the departments they lead, but McMahon — with her repeated public missteps — arguably tops the list. Certainly, this is not an ideal trait for an agency head, particularly when that person is tasked with ensuring the proper, fair and effective teaching of America’s students.
Resign? And give up that obscene salary (federal Level 1 department secretaries: $221,400)?
And walk away from all the glitter and glitz of being in the Trump regime? Nary a chance.
What makes you assume she can find the head (potty) on her own?
My cousin Jim called me this afternoon. We hadn’t talked since Jan. and him heading off on his annual (and always lengthy as in up to two months or more) trip to Thailand. He’s retired from the State. Dept. by the way and worked in overseas U.S. programs before getting his job at State. Anyway we were in agreement that having actual qualifications for a post in this second Trump administration is a DIS-qualifier!
It’s sad that the Education in our country is going completely down hill with people like this in charge.
Y’all seem to be forgetting that Drumpf’s already made a big deal about planning to abolish the Department of Education (and I still think Democratic Senators missed a good opportunity to question McMahon as to why she’d willingly choose to lead an agency under the threat of abolition) so it really didn’t matter what qualifications (or lack thereof) Drumpf’s Secretary of Education had for the job.