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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that restored the presidential aptitude evidence and the president’s advice on sports, fitness and nutrition for American schoolchildren.
The origins of the presidential aptitude test date back to the 1950s under the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower established the president’s council on Fitness Youth in 1956, since Americans feared that their physical strength was poor compared to that of Europeans.
President John F. Kennedy was based on that idea in 1960 when he published a column in Sports Illustrated before assuming the position. The title of the piece was called “The soft American.” In the piece, Kennedy regretted that there was an “increasingly large amount of young Americans who are neglecting their bodies, whose physical aptitude is not what they should be, that they are becoming soft. And such softness by individual citizens can help strip and destroy the vitality of a nation.”
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President Donald Trump gave a pen to the professional golfer Bryson Dechambeau after Trump signed an executive order that restarted the presidential aptitude test in public schools as Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, on the left, Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and the vice president JD Vance Watch. Thursday, July 31, 2025, in the Roosvelt Hall of the White House of the White House. (Photo AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
“Because the physical vigor of our citizens is one of the most precious resources in the United States. If we waste and neglect this resource, if we allow it to decrease and become soft, then we will destroy much of our ability to face the great and vital challenges that our people face. We will not be able to perform our complete potential as a nation,” he added.
In 1966, the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson formalized the Physical Fitness Awards program. The children were tested and had to perform abdominals, flexions or flexions and a test of sitting and scope. The program recognizes those who were in the 85th or better.
A 1 -mile race and a heart traffic race over the years as presidents were also added after Johnson would play with the evidence.
Over the years, the presidential aptitude test faced criticism for a unique approach and not account for individual force and physical composition.
The presidential physical conditioning test lasted until the 2012-13 school year when President Barack Obama withdrew it in favor of the Presidential Youth Physical Conditioning Program. The presidential physical conditioning test was replaced by the Fitnessgram, which adopted a holistic approach to the well -being of students.
The program moved away from “recognizing sports performance to provide a barometer on student health,” according to a profile on the Health.gov website.
“The presidential youthful fitness program emphasizes the value of living a physically active and healthy lifestyle, in school and beyond. The program minimizes comparisons between children and instead supports students as they pursue objectives for personal physical conditioning for life for life. When adopting the program, schools obtain access to a robust selection of resources to promote the physical activity of the physical activity of the physical activity of the physical activity of the physical activity of the physical activity to promote Physics-access based on the test to proof, standards for tests, calculators, the ability of the airization and the ability of life’s useful life.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks during an event in which President Donald Trump will sign an executive order that restarts the presidential aptitude test in public schools, on Thursday, July 31, 2025, in the Roosevelt room of the White House in Washington. (Photo AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
On Thursday, Trump ordered the president’s advice on sports, fitness and nutrition to execute ways to relieve the crisis of obesity among children in the United States LIV golf star, Bryson Dechambeau, was used to direct the Council.
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The Executive Order said that the Council should recommend the following:
- (i) Strategies to restore the presidential aptitude test, with any appropriate improvements, such as the main evaluation tool for a presidential aptitude prize;
- (ii) Strategies for the development and promotion of presidential challenges and school programs that reward excellence in physical education;
- (iii) actions to expand opportunities at global, national, state and local levels to participate in sports and participation in physical aptitude;
- (iv) Bold and innovative aptitude objectives for young Americans with the aim of promoting a new generation of healthy and active citizens;
- (v) campaigns and events that raise US sports, military preparation and health traditions;
- (VI) Opportunities at global, national, state and local levels that expand participation in sports and emphasize the importance of an active lifestyle and good nutrition, which should include associations with professional athletes, sports organizations, players associations, influential figures, non -profit organizations and community groups to inspire all Americans, among other initiatives; and
- (VII) Strategies to address the growing national security threat raised by the growing rates of childhood obesity, chronic diseases and sedentary lifestyles, which threaten the future preparation of the United States workforce and army.
The Executive Order will order the Council to create “school programs that reward excellence in physical education and develop criteria for a presidential fitness prize.”
“It’s a wonderful tradition and we are bringing it back,” Trump said.
Dechambeau is the president of the Council. Trump mentioned the defensive wing of the San Francisco 49ers Nick Bosa, the Philadelphia Eagles corridor, Saquon Barkley and the Mary Marshal of the Miami Dolphins, Tua Tagovaila, will also be in the Council.
President Donald Trump presents an executive order signed that restarts the presidential aptitude test in public schools as Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, from the left, professional golfer Bryson Dechambeau, WWE CCO Triple H and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Watch, Thursday, July 31, 2025 Blanca in Washington. (Photo AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
“We have the opportunity to be the 70th anniversary of the president’s advice on sports, fitness and nutrition, to literally change the fabric of children’s lives,” said Dechambeau. “Our first initiative is to recover and revive the president’s physical condition and also restore some key guidelines on construction communities.”
