r/whowouldwin • u/retired-tweeter • 4d ago

Battle All 47 US Presidents are running against each other in a 40 yard dash. Who wins?

Every U.S. President is magically cloned into their peak physical form, dropped onto a football field, and lined up for a 40-yard dash. Who ya got?

Favorites:

JFK: 2 sport college athlete, plus military training. Swam 3.5 miles towing an injured soldier with a bad back.

Gerald Ford: Another strong military background who was a two-way football player at Michigan.

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Extensive military career, who played halfback at west point until his injury. Guessing he was a little fast even in segregated times

Barack Obama: Gonna get a lot of votes here probably as one of the only presidents we've seen in action playing an athletic sport, but no athletic background, so you know, can't give him too much credit

Donald Trump: In doing my 20 minutes worth of research, I came across this quote from a Ted Levine in 2015 (In an article about Trump running in 2016 so...take that as you will) "He was just the best, a good athlete, a great athlete," Levine said. "He could have probably played pro ball as a pitcher. I think he threw 80 miles an hour.... He was physically and mentally gifted." So there's that (Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-high-school-classmates-what-he-was-like-2015-10)

All in All, I'd lean Gerald Ford. JFK had injury issues so who knows what his "prime" would have been athletically. Maybe at absolute peak and health, JFK could win, but I'm going with the 2-way football player from Michigan.

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u/neksys 4d ago

A 16-17 year old throwing 80mph fastballs in 1962 would have absolutely drawn a TON of interest from MLB teams. Even now 75-85 in high school would pique some scouts attention.

I say this with A LOT OF DOUBT that Trump was throwing heaters in high school.

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u/CowboySoothsayer 4d ago

I say with no doubt that he wasn’t.

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u/Coalnaryinthecarmine 4d ago

he was physically and mentally gifted

I assume his physical gifts were about on par with his mental ones

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u/Ill_Made_Knight 4d ago

Listen man, he's highly cognitive. Woman. Fish. Elephant. Doctor nearly fell out of his chair when Trump listed those things. Never been done before. They tested Einstein once and he only got to Wom. The fact that Trump got all 3 means he's 3 times smarter than Egghead. He's on another level and has the good genes like Syndey. A lot of people are saying it.

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u/JonnyRottensTeeth 4d ago

trump was also tangentially related to an MIT professor! If great intellect is not inherited directly from your uncle, I don't know anything about basic genetics!

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u/faplessinfeattle 4d ago

Mental bone spurs

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u/ejjsjejsj 1d ago

I have no idea why you would be confident in that. He was over six feet tall and kind of a bulky build in his youth, probably around 200 pounds. Also throwing 80 is very good but not outrageous. He was also rich growing up so he could’ve had good coaching/training. Overall I see no reason why this couldn’t be true

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u/EmptyOhNein 4d ago

Trump is less than a year from beating Kim Jong Un's "38 under" on the golf course with his current trajectory. I'd take any accomplishment he has or had with a planet full of salt.

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u/CloseToMyActualName 2d ago

I heard that Trump and Kim Jong Un played a full round of golf together.

After 18 holes they were tied at 17.

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u/rolldamntree 4d ago

D1 schools now have basically all their guys throwing minimum mid 80s and most in the 90s. 75-80 might get you a look for a d2 school it definitely isn’t interesting pro scouts in today’s baseball

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u/confused-koala 4d ago

Thank you lol. Not quite, but nearly as asinine a comment as the one we’re (deservedly) clowning on

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u/PibbleDad 1d ago

I threw 75-80 in HS with good accuracy. Definitely did not get scouted lol

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u/Mrs_Crii 4d ago

He definitely wasn't. I remember reading about someone who knew him then and his baseball performance wasn't anything special.

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u/PresidentEnronMusk 3d ago

How could he have had an athletic career with bone spurs?