Kakistocracy: Trump's Education Sec Pick Lied about Having an Education Degree

Trump's pick for education secretary, Linda McMahon, resigned from a state education board after a newspaper asked about her lie that she had an education degree.

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The media wanted a broken U.S., and they are getting it.

In keeping with the president-elect’s tradition of being the absolute worst and most ignorant and surrounding himself with like-minded criminals, liars, and abusers, the person he chose to lead the Department of Education, Linda McMahon, resigned from a state education board soon after a newspaper asked her about her lie that she had an education degree.

The Washington Post, you know — the paper that refused to endorse a candidate in the 2024 election, because who could tell who would be better for the global superpower status of the U.S.A and for basic democracy, which they (now laughably) claim is their raison d'etre — reported this scintillating detail Wednesday morning, noting McMahon had “incorrectly claimed in 2009 that she had a bachelor’s degree in education on a questionnaire for a Connecticut Board of Education post, according to news reports at the time”, but in fact has a bachelor’s degree in French and “a teaching certificate from East Carolina University, according to her alma mater’s announcement that she would deliver the 2018 commencement speech.”

The paper that caught her lie at the time she was running for the Senate in 2010 was the Hartford Courant.

It’s all so understandable, though, given that she has been chosen to lead the Department of Education, that she did not know what her degree was in. You see, dear reader, McMahon claimed at the time that she “thought her degree was in education because she did a semester of student teaching, and that she had written to the governor’s office the previous year to correct the error after another newspaper noticed the mistake.”

She did a semester of student teaching and thought that was the same as an education degree.

She didn’t bother to check her transcript, because facts don’t matter. And that is precisely WHY Donald Trump has chosen her as the best person to do the most damage to the Department of Education.

“McMahon resigned from the state education board one day after the Courant told her it intended to write about the error, the paper reported, but McMahon said the timing was unrelated.”

The president-elect’s transition team decried these facts as “politically motivated attacks,” and to be fair, reality is a politically motivated attack on Trump and Republicans in general, so they have raised a fair point: Reality must be done away with if Republicans are to succeed.

His team claims he has a mandate, which is also not factual, but then I repeat myself. When I tell you what his team says, you, because you are wiser than most of the media, already suspect it is likely to be untrue or an exaggeration or gaslighting.

His picks are Kakistocracy in action (per Dictionary): “government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.”