Trump Signs Memo Restoring Presidential Fitness Test

President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Tuesday restoring the Presidential Physical Fitness Award and advancing the revival of the Presidential Fitness Test for schoolchildren nationwide.

The signing took place in the Oval Office at the White House, where Trump was joined by Cabinet secretaries including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner. Student athletes and members of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition also attended, along with professional athletes such as golfers Bryson DeChambeau and Gary Player, Baltimore Ravens cornerback Amani Oruwariye, and MLB pitcher Noah Syndergaard.

Trump read from the memorandum, stating, "From the late 1950s until 2013, grade schoolers across the country competed against each other in the Presidential Fitness Test, then we had the Obama administration, which phased out this wonderful tradition of physical fitness and we're bringing it back." The program, originally established in the 1950s under President Dwight D. Eisenhower and expanded under President John...