WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque is among a group of high-profile professional athletes who will join President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday to sign an executive order expanding the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. The news was first reported by CNN.
The initiative will see the formal reestablishment of the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools, a program first introduced in 1966. Levesque, a 14-time world champion, will be a formal member of the council, continuing a decades-long relationship between the Trump and McMahon families.
Levesque will join several other prominent figures from the world of sports in the White House’s Roosevelt Room for the signing. The council will be chaired by LIV Golf League star Bryson DeChambeau. Other members include Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, and LPGA legend Annika Sorenstam.
According to the White House, the executive order is designed to address “the widespread epidemic of declining health and physical fitness” and instructs the council to partner with professional athletes and sports organizations to create a “culture of strength and excellence for years to come.” The revived Presidential Fitness Test will be administered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Trump and McMahon Connection
The inclusion of Triple H on the council is the latest chapter in a long and storied history between Donald Trump and the McMahon family, the founders of WWE. The relationship dates back to the late 1980s when Trump Plaza in Atlantic City hosted both WrestleMania IV (1988) and WrestleMania V (1989), two of the company’s biggest events of that era. Trump was a frequent front-row guest at these shows, establishing a public friendship with Vince and Linda McMahon.
This partnership reached its on-screen peak at WrestleMania 23 in 2007 with the “Battle of the Billionaires.” The storyline saw Trump and Vince McMahon each select a representative to compete in a match, with the losing billionaire having their head shaved. Trump’s representative, Bobby Lashley, was victorious, and Trump famously shaved McMahon’s head in the middle of the ring.
Donald Trump was inducted into the celebrity wing of the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013. The relationship has continued into the political realm, as Linda McMahon served in Trump’s cabinet as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration during his first term. Paul “Triple H” Levesque, as the son-in-law of Vince and Linda McMahon and the current creative leader of WWE, now continues that public association as the face of the company.
