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Health equity expert calls Trump’s school fitness test plan ‘political theater’
MSNBC·2025-08-03 17:33

[Music] Welcome back to Politics Nation. This week, President Trump signed an executive order to bring the presidential fitness test back to public school. The fitness test was first established by President Eisenhower in 1956.The original version called for students to complete 40 push-ups, 10 pull-ups, and a 6 and a half uh minute mile. Uh joining me now is Dr. . Usher Blackstock, CEO of Advancing Health Equity.Uh Doc, will help a as you know, I take my health uh and physical shape very seriously. I I hav ...