The so-called tests, which include pull-ups, sit-ups, sit-and-reach, and the unforgettable shuttle run, will be overseen by a 30-member council, including Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. Tagovailoa, who is best known for winning a College Football National Championship with Alabama in 2018 and being the current face of the NFL's perpetual concussion debate after multiple devastating injuries, told reporters Wednesday he was unsure why Trump appointed him to the council, according to The Guardian.
"I think it’s pretty cool – it’s an honor,” Tagovailoa told reporters Wednesday. “I don’t know too much about it, but it’s an honor."
Trump restarted the council in a July 31 executive order, which also called for the reinstatement of the Presidential Fitness Test, a test of physical ability any boomer or millennial will remember well from grade school.
He joins perhaps two of the NFL's most staunch Trump supporters in San Francisco 49er's Nick Bosa, who the NFL fined $11,255 for wearing a MAGA hat during a postgame interview in 2024, and Kansas City Chiefs' Harrison Butker, who said that women should be homemakers and called diversity initiatives tyrannical during a commencement speech at Benedictine College last year. Trump butchered the Hawaiian native's name during the announcement, which also included Eagles' Saquon Barkley before the recent Super Bowl champ announced he declined the offer, according to NBC.
"And Tua Tago-valia," Trump said during the announcement shown on NBC 6.
President Trump gave a shoutout to Tua Tagovailoa during a recent speech, but completely butchered his name. The moment...
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"Rates of obesity, chronic disease, inactivity, and poor nutrition are at crisis levels, particularly among our children," according to the man who served McDonald's at the White House after Clemson beat Tagovailoa in the National Championship in 2019. "These trends weaken our economy, military readiness, academic performance, and national morale."
