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/Cold_Buy_2695 4d ago

"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.

Given the cult like levels of glazing they do to Trump, do you really believe for a second that any of that is true?

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u/Sad_Anybody5424 4d ago

Slate did a deep dive into this: Was Donald Trump Good at Baseball?

You will be shocked to learn that Trump has a history of telling outrageous lies about his past as an athlete. He was a competent HS baseball player, but there was zero chance he could have played D1 baseball, let alone signed a pro contract.

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u/MarhabanAnaAndy 4d ago

Only tangentially related, but Trump’s views on exercise in general are pretty entertaining. He apparently believes that the human body has “finite energy” and exercising exhausts it, leading to early death. I can’t recall who it was, but one of his aides mentioned that his son was doing an iron man and Trump responded “he’s taking years off his life”

He apparently walks as little as possible and will literally hop in a golf cart to go 20 feet.

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u/maineblackbear 4d ago

He never had the makings of a varsity athlete

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u/tommyjohnpauljones 16h ago

In college? Thoszh guys at Penn were szheven feet tawl!!

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u/Stalking_Goat 4d ago

The tragedy of bone spurs ruins so many fine young folks. /s

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u/Dependent_Weight2274 4d ago

WHY DO YOU GOT TO ALWAYS BRING THAT UP?!

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u/VegasLife84 4d ago

small mushroom, that was his problem

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u/VulfSki 2d ago

Trump would win because his caddy would just drive him to the finish line

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u/Galby1314 4d ago

Depends when it was said. If it was said 25 years ago, maybe. Everybody loved him 25 years ago.

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u/Cold_Buy_2695 4d ago

Love is a strong word. He was every bit the douche then that he is now. Back then, people mostly knew him by reputation. It's not like twitter was a thing where he could really express himself.

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u/maineblackbear 4d ago

Everyone in NYC hated him then.

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u/Mrs_Crii 4d ago

People liked him during his Apprentice run and now (fascists) love him for different reasons. At no other time in history was he loved by anybody. During my entire childhood and much of my adulthood he was the common butt of jokes for constantly bankrupting companies and failing in general.

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u/retired-tweeter 4d ago

The whole article reads like a glaze of trump for a presidential run so again....gotta add some salt with how you take it. Not saying its not completely unbelivable about trump being an athlete, but everything with him is hyperbole: https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-high-school-classmates-what-he-was-like-2015-10

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u/the_new_hunter_s 4d ago

What feats does Trump have as a fucking athlete? I don’t see a ingle feat in that article. We work off feats not feelings in this sub.