An unearthed clip of a current US Mayor committing a violent assault on the soon-to-be new US Education Secretary has gone viral. In the short clip from 2003, the Mayor of Knox Country Glenn Jacobs can be seen turning Linda McMahon, 76, upside down, placing her between his legs and slamming her head first onto the ground.
This took place in front of a thousands of horrified onlookers, who were packed into the Staples Centre in Los Angeles to watch WWE Monday Night Raw – yes, Glenn Jacobs is the wrestler formerly known as Kane and this was all sanctioned violence on Raw’s 530th episode.
However, as Trump fan McMahon returns to the White House to take up another role inside Donald’s incoming cabinet, the clip of the two now-politicians engaging in one of WWE’s most viral moments has once again been brought up on social media.
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The 22-second video shows Kane tombstoning Linda on the Raw stage as the crowd erupts – the commentary team of Jerry Lawler and Jonathan Coachman had already been silenced by a furious Kane and were lying somewhere else on the stage in pain . . . as was fellow WWE legend Rob Van Dam.
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Anyway, in the real world, the clip has been ridiculed with many claiming that the incident sums up American politics nicely.
One wrote: “I was today years old when I learned that my childhood WWE hero Kane is now a Mayor. This tombstone is for Trump’s incoming education secretary, Linda McMahon.”
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A second wrote: “Only in U.S. politics — here’s Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs, aka Kane, delivering a Tombstone Piledriver to Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon on WWE. America is back!”
And a third joked: “You think Kane and Linda McMahon can put their past behind them and work together?”
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