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/AdditionalBranch2543 4d ago

Yeah I have a suspicion that Abe was the most freak athlete of all presidents— the Wilt. He was a seriously elite wrestler and could hold an axe at arms-length forever. I know a lot of unathletic wrestlers, but I think Abe was just built different.

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u/Melodic-Beach-5411 4d ago

Abraham Lincoln also killed vampires and could run across the backs of stampeding horses. Abe FTW

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u/Lumphrey 3d ago

Came here to say this

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u/Melodic-Beach-5411 3d ago

Great minds 🫡

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u/CosmicFury711 3d ago

He is also one of the world’s greatest superheroes and was the strongest hero on Earth, until Omni-Man came along

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u/RemusShepherd ​ 4d ago

Abraham Lincoln was built different. He was a mutant, born with Marfan's syndrome, a disease that usually causes the muscles to waste and deteriorate. But the physical labor of his youth out-conditioned the disease, building incredible amounts of muscle to compensate for any weakness and then over-building it to give him phenomenal strenght.

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u/simplyinfinities 2d ago

There is no evidence that he had Marfan's. There is speculation about it but nothing has been proved.

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u/Gingermiah 7h ago

I'm not sure what you mean here. You can't "out condition" Marfan Syndrome.its a generic condition. No amount of hard work is going to rewrite your DNA.

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u/Arctic_The_Hunter 1d ago

Nowhere close to George Washington, who was 6’8” and weighed a fucking ton.