{"id":434827,"date":"2026-05-06T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434827\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:44:08","slug":"late-night-hosts-take-aim-at-donald-trump-reinstating-fitness-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434827\/","title":{"rendered":"Late-Night Hosts Take Aim at Donald Trump Reinstating Fitness Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tYesterday Donald Trump<\/a> signed an executive order<\/a> to\u00a0reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test\u00a0in public schools nationwide, much to the delight of late-night hosts. During his announcement, he ranted to a group of children about the stock market, his poll numbers, how he should have won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending eight wars, and the war he just started with Iran. <\/p>\n

\n\tOn The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon<\/a> quipped, \u201cTrump is very into fitness. In fact, whenever somebody asks about the Epstein files he sprints out of the room.\u201d He added, \u201cTrump said the fittest kids will get to come to the White House and help build the ballroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFallon shared a clip of Trump announcing the news in the Oval Office alongside a group of children, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and Education Secretary Linda McMahon. During the event, Trump bored the children by talking about being elected as president and ending wars. \u201cThe kids are like, \u2018This could have been an email,’\u201d Fallon joked. <\/p>\n

\n\tOn Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live, Jimmy Kimmel noted that Trump\u2019s version of the fitness test involves seeing \u201chow many Wendy\u2019s tendies you can fit in your mouth.\u201d Kimmel added, \u201cOnly Donald Trump would bring back a test he would have no chance of passing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel shared several clips from the announcement, including telling the kids he had ended eight wars and transgender athletes. Trump claimed there has been \u201ctransgender mutalization of your children for everyone\u201d during his speech. \u201cThis man is insane,\u201d Kimmel responded. \u201cHe made up a word, mutalization, and he\u2019s telling children about it!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn The Daily Show<\/a>, Desi Lydic pointed out that Trump\u2019s subject matter, including nuclear weapons and the war in Iran, might not have been totally appropriate for the kids. \u201cHow are you talking about nuclear war in front of children?\u201d she asked. She added, mimicking Trump, \u201c\u2018You kids have seen Oppenheimer, right? Florence Pugh. Her titties were out for 10 minutes and he became death, destroyer of all worlds. So true. So true.’\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tOn Late Night, Seth Meyers<\/a> noted that Trump claimed during the event that Iran would have launched a nuclear strike against the U.S. and Israel if he hadn\u2019t taken action against them. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cYou just know those kids were thinking, \u2018Yeah, but didn\u2019t President Obama reach a deal with Iran during his administration that reduced uranium enrichment by 98 percent, as well as allow for international inspectors to ensure that Iran was hewing to the deal in exchange for sanctions relief?’\u201d he quipped. \u201cI mean, they were polite not to say it. But they were thinking it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday Donald Trump signed an executive order to\u00a0reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test\u00a0in public schools nationwide, much to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[969,93,61,60,3721,3484,13478,3121,59668,282],"class_list":["post-434827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-late-night-tv","tag-seth-meyers","tag-the-daily-show","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}