Trump sets up Presidential Fitness Test for another revamp after Obama retired it during presidency

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order reestablishing the Presidential Fitness Test and the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition for American schoolchildren.

The origins of the Presidential Fitness Test date back to the 1950s under President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration. Eisenhower established the President’s Council on Youth Fitness in 1956 as Americans feared their physical strength was subpar compared to that of Europeans.

President John F. Kennedy built upon that idea in 1960 when he published a column in Sports Illustrated before he took office. The title of the piece was called "The Soft American." In the piece, Kennedy lamented that there were an "an increasingly large number o...