Trump and RFK Jr. push school fitness test critics say hides darker health agenda

President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plan to reinstate the discredited presidential fitness test in schools, a move critics warn is less about health than about stigmatizing children and undermining public health care. The program, abandoned in 2012, has long been criticized for humiliating kids rather than encouraging exercise, but Trump and Kennedy are framing it as part of their “Make America Healthy Again” push. Salon’s Amanda Marcotte argues the real goal is to shift blame for poor health outcomes onto individuals, creating a pretext to gut health programs like Medicaid while advancing an ideology that only the “fit” deserve care.

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