Jimmy Kimmel ridicules Trump’s ‘golden age of athletics’ claim

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6 May 2026 • 11:30 PM MYT
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Jimmy Kimmel ridicules Trump’s ‘golden age of athletics’ claim

  • President Trump signed an executive order to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test in schools nationwide, proclaiming that the "next few years will be a golden age of athletics."
  • Comedian Jimmy Kimmel ruthlessly mocked Trump's interest in fitness during his late-night monologue, suggesting Trump himself would not pass the test.
  • The original Presidential Fitness Test, which measured students' strength, speed, and endurance, was launched in the 1950s but was replaced by a programme focusing on individual progress during the Obama administration.
  • During the announcement, Trump was joined by athletes and officials, and also used the occasion to discuss transgender rights and "men in women's sports" with children present.
  • Kimmel reacted to Trump's comments on gender reassignment, sarcastically describing them as the remarks of a "totally lucid, very rational, clear-minded, level-headed person."

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