Trump picks NFL player for housing and urban secretary...the first black ministerial candidate

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has named Scott Turner, former chairman of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Committee, as a candidate for secretary of housing and urban development for the second term of his administration.

In a statement on the 22nd local time, Trump introduced Turner as an NFL veteran who led an unprecedented effort to transform America's most difficult communities and explained, "Scott will work with me to make America great again for all Americans."

Turner, the first black secretary candidate in Trump's second-term administration, was a player with the NFL's Washington Redskins from 1995 to 2004, then jumped into politics, was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 2012 and served until 2017.

During Trump's first term in office, he chaired the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Committee, which was newly established by a presidential executive order in 2019.