Overview
- President Donald Trump, who signed the order Tuesday at the White House, called the revival the start of a "golden age of athletics."
- The change reverses a 2013 shift under Barack Obama that replaced the old test with a broader youth fitness program.
- Early reporting says the rollout would begin with a mandate at 161 schools on U.S. military bases, though no detailed implementation plan has been released.
- Reporting describes classic events in the test such as a roughly one-mile run, pull-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, and shuttle runs, with certificates for top performers.
- The event doubled as stagecraft as Trump joked he trains "about one minute a day," traded golf quips with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and posed with a golf ball while students demonstrated exercises.