Presidential Fitness: I Will If You Will

*Yes, let’s DO talk about presidential fitness.*

So, Trump wants to bring back the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.

Fine, fine. That’s fine.

Leaving aside the general inadequacy of one-size-fits-all standards and of how such fitness standards are constructed, physical fitness in general is a laudable goal for anyone.

So there are much worse things he could have dredged up from the nostalgia-soaked depths of his decaying brain.

There are much worse things that he actually does come up with every day.

So, whatever.

But (and, like Trump’s, this is a huge butt), it needs to apply to the folks who are mandating it.

This is America, after all; the people making the standards should be held to them.

We’ve been pretty bad about actually enforcing that rule, but it’s a deeply foundational principle of this country and (at least in the abstract) one that the vast majority of the country supports.

So, sure, let’s bring back the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.

As long as we all join in.

I’ll do it. I’m not in school any more and haven’t been for a long time, but I can still do pushups, situps, pullups and such.

I’ll even post my scores on social media.

As long as the President and all of his cronys do as well.

Let’s see how they all do before we let them require it in schools. Can Trump even do one pullup? Can he even touch his elbow to his knee on a situp?