Overview
- President Donald Trump signed a memorandum in the Oval Office on Tuesday restoring the Presidential Fitness Test Award as part of his Make America Healthy Again initiative.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the revived test will be mandatory at 161 schools on U.S. military installations to start.
- The ceremony featured schoolchildren, pro athletes such as Bryson DeChambeau, Gary Player and Noah Syndergaard, and senior officials including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Education Secretary Linda McMahon.
- During the same appearance, Trump repeated his false claim that the 2020 election was rigged and warned the children about Iran’s nuclear threat, prompting criticism over the setting and tone.
- In a radio interview Monday, he said Iranians "have to have guns" and suggested they are getting them, reinforcing how his Iran messaging is overlapping with the school fitness rollout.