President Donald Trump's administration has decided to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test, which was given to students in American schools until 2013.
The move was instantly mocked by onlookers eager to point out that the fitness of Trump might not be something to aim for — despite the president's past brags about his health.
The program had been changed to the Presidential Youth Fitness Program, which took into account each student's individual assessment and goals rather than pitting students against each other.
"The program minimizes comparisons between children and instead supports students as they pursue personal fitness goals for lifelong health," the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion website says.
Civil rights advocate Tara Blunt pointed out that the program Trump will return to once "shamed kids, ignored neurodiversity, and measured worth by push-ups instead of well-being."
She complained, "This isn’t about health. It’s about control, nostalgia, and performance politics dressed up as 'fitness.” If you really cared about kids, you’d be funding school lunches, inclusive PE, trauma-informed education, and mental health—not reviving a test that made half the class feel like failures."
New York Health Campaign leader Melanie D'Arrigo couldn't help but note that all of this is coming at a time when Trump is also cutting aid to children.
"Bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test while slashing healthcare and food assistance for kids is like a president promising to release the Epstein files — then burying them to protect pedophiles because his name’s in there too," she wrote on X.
It drew mockery aimed at both Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Psychiatrist Christopher Rodgman, MD asked, "Question: has Donald Trump, an exquisite physical specimen, personally passed this presidential fitness test?"
He later added: "It’s just funny imagining Trump trying to do 10 pushups."
There were several posts of photos of Trump, many of which showed the 79-year-old in an unflattering light.
"Him first," posted an X user named Miss Claudia Menlo.
Others requested that Trump be required to take the test himself, with some asking him to pass just one of the requirements, such as 10 push-ups.
"I won’t criticize him again for the rest of his term if Trump does the Presidential Fitness Test live on national television," pledged appellate attorney Peter J. Tomasek.
But Trump's health wasn't the only thing that got mocked. RFK Jr.'s history as a drug user and other risky behavior drew ridicule as well.
"THANK YOU!!! I really needed this belly laugh from the heroin addict," noted one woman.
