Trump’s 2024 Transition Team Announced: McMahon and Lutnick at the Helm

Ex-President Donald Trump
Ex-President Donald Trump. Credit | Getty images

United States – Donald Trump’s U. S. Republican presidential campaign disclosed that two of its largest funders will be in charge of the transition team created in order to assess the staff and construct policies in case of another victory in November for the former president, as reported by Reuters.

Professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald Howard Lutnik will co-chair the campaign according to an announcement made by the campaign.

Honorary Chairs

His sons, Donald Trump Jr. And Eric Trump, And the Vice Presidential nominee from the Republicans, Senator JD Vance, will be the honorary chair.

McMahon was the co-founder and former chief executive of the professional wrestling franchise WWE and is the chair of the America First Policy Institute, which has produced some of the policy ideas for a second Trump term if he were to run again.

McMahon assumed the role of administrator of the Small Business Administration for most of Trump’s 2017-2021 term. Lutnick has positioned himself as one of Trump’s major fundraising assets, and recently, he hosted a USD 15 million fundraising event for the former president in the Hamptons.

In most cases, presidential campaigns usually form a transition team before the election’s beginning to prepare for changes. Nevertheless, it remains uncertain that Trump’s transition team will be able to move should he triumph over the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, in the November 5 election.

Historical Context

Trump dismissed most of the transition team he appointed prior to his victory in the 2016 election after developing a rift with former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who headed the exercise until mid-November of that year. This was considered disrespectful by Trump, who alleged that he privately complained about Christie’s picks for the administration’s staff and a political scandal that the latter’s former aids were facing at that time, as reported by Reuters.

Trump is more engaged in campaigning currently, several people who speak to him say, as his polling lead has disappeared in recent weeks after Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden as the vice presidential nominee.