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?

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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/According-Item-2306 4d ago

George HW was a star college baseball player… 40 yards is close to a base run

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u/enunymous 4d ago

Can't believe I had to scroll through so many comments to get to this point. I think too many people think of him as an old man instead of an athlete and fighter pilot

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u/SirParsifal ​ 4d ago

He wasn't a star. Good fielding first baseman with a below-average bat.

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u/tesseractjane 2d ago

He was also on the Yale cheer squad, a fighter pilot, amd trained for the invasion of mainland Japan that never happened. He wasn't a little guy either, he wasn't Abe tall but he was 6ft 2."

Bush in 1943 or so? I bet that man was fast.