If president-elect Donald Trump’s end goal really is to shut down as many government agencies as possible, he’s doing a bang-up job with the picks he’s been making to fill leadership positions in them.

We narrowly avoided having the Justice Department run by a guy who was being investigated by the Justice Department. Trump picked an ambassador to Israel whose idea of Middle East peace is the eradication of Palestine.

He’s even got two idiots — one whose latest investment in social media is worth 80% less than when he bought it — running a fake department of getting rid of departments.

Even Trump voters are finding out that everything is upside-down and inside-out from what they thought it was going to be if they elected Donald Trump president in 2024.

But that hasn’t stopped Donnie from continuing his steamrolling efforts in earnest. And now we have a Department that Trump has already told everyone he wants to get rid of with a nominee that’s absolutely unbelievable.

During the campaign, Trump was clear on education priorities in his next term. Reuters reported:

Trump has pledged to require U.S. colleges and universities to “defend American tradition and Western civilization” and to purge them of diversity programs. He said he would direct the Justice Department to pursue civil rights cases against schools that engage in racial discrimination.

At K-12 schools, Trump would support programs allowing parents to use public funds for private or religious instruction.

Trump also wants to abolish the federal Department of Education, and leave states in control of schooling.

So why even PICK a Secretary of Education?

Well, Republicans have a longstanding tradition of saying “Government doesn’t work, and we’re going to prove it.” They shut down the government when they don’t get their way. They filibuster every nominee for anything from the opposing party. They vote against their own bills if there’s even a hint that it might get bipartisan support.

So it makes sense that Trump would nominate someone to head a Department that he wants to get rid of who has absolutely no experience in that area. No better way to prove government doesn’t work than to propose an “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV” nominee.

This time around, it’s Linda McMahon, the woman Trump had running the Small Business Administration the last time he was president. She wasn’t qualified for that job, either — the business she runs as CEO is, in fact, quite large: World Wrestling Entertainment. That’s how Trump even knows her. One time Trump (the wannabe actor) shaved Linda’s husband Vince’s head in the ring in a staged “revenge” match.

But this job is one she’s uniquely unqualified for. She’s not a teacher and never has been. She has no experience whatsoever in education. At least the last Education Secretary under Trump, Betsy DeVos, had a little experience, even if neither she nor her children had ever attended a public school.

It turns out, however, that Linda isn’t just not a teacher. The USA Today has the story:

On Jan. 9, 2009, Linda McMahon filled out a vetting questionnaire to serve on the state board of education in Connecticut.

On it, she indicated she earned a bachelor’s degree in education, according to a copy of the original form the governor’s office provided to USA TODAY.

She did not.

McMahon, a billionaire and wrestling executive who graduated from East Carolina University in 1969, actually has a bachelor’s degree in French, the school confirmed to USA TODAY Wednesday. Although her academic program at the time was designed to prepare teachers for instruction, the school said, McMahon does not have a degree in education.

She attempted to explain the lie away years later, and now it’s come back up after Trump’s nomination. His transition team isn’t answering any questions other than for spokesperson Brian Hughes to tell the Washington Post that the “clarification was addressed many, many years ago.”

Hughes went on to complain, “These types of politically-motivated attacks are the new normal for nominees ready to enact President Trump’s mandate for common sense that an overwhelming majority of Americans supported two weeks ago.”

Man, Brian. Even that’s a lie. Trump doesn’t have a mandate, because a majority of Americans voted against him. He received less than 50% of the total vote. I mean, so did Kamala, of course, but the point is, nobody can claim a “majority” of Americans support anything. Until we enact compulsory voting here like they do in Australia and 21 other countries, it will always be impossible to prove what a “majority” of any country’s citizens support politically.

And Trump didn’t even get a majority of the registered voters who bothered to vote. Trump was elected by a number representing just 22% of America.

Anyway, back then, Linda wanted to be on the state board of education in Connecticut, and that’s where she lied on her job application. She eventually got confirmed to that position, but resigned less than a year later after the board passed new rules restricting the political activities of board members.

Add to that the fact that she and her husband are named in a lawsuit for failing to stop decades of sexual abuse of minor children by a former WWE employee, and McMahon may be facing an uphill battle during Senate confirmation.

But hey, at least she’s got a degree in French. If she loses in the Senate, she can tell them mordre mon cul. That’s what you say when you’re the head of a fake wrestling league. Don’t worry, the bite isn’t real, just like her degree in education.