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News & Current Events Apr 14, 2026 at 11:51 PM

Philippine president does jumping jacks to disprove health rumors

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Philippine president does jumping jacks to disprove health rumors
NBC News
Philippine president does jumping jacks to disprove health rumors
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., 68, said the impromptu workout was meant to ease worries about his health as the Southeast Asian nation struggles with fallout from the Iran war.

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Empty_Ad3616 4 days ago +183
How many does someone need to do to prove they're healthly?
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AudibleNod 4 days ago +109
Forty-five or forty-seven, by my count.
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ZAlternates 4 days ago +34
Our PE class required 100 to get the Presidential Fitness Award, so that. Of course we’re gonna need a 6 inch sit and reach, an 6 minute mile, 20 pull-ups, and a few other things I can’t remember from 30 years ago.
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Earl_E_Byrd 3 days ago
A six minute mile 😭💀 did anyone besides the track baddies ever make that time? Did I?!?! I was a hurdle and 400m girlie. I only did cross country as a way to stay in shape during the off season. I know I sucked. My 1600m was probably 7 or 8 minutes if I ever bothered to care.  Last time I timed myself it was a struggle to get under 10 minutes.  For non-runners, you would probably call that speed a "jog." Basically, can you go the whole mile without stopping to walk? Congrats, you'll probably end up somewhere around 10 minutes.
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sicilian504 4 days ago +63
Ask the US president to do any.
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starrpamph 4 days ago +28
“2026 Presidential fitness test” but for the president Five jumping jacks in three minutes One sit and reach in two minutes ~~Two push ups in five minutes~~
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_Nightbreaker_ 4 days ago +26
remember when trump was in italy and had to ride around in a golf cart because he couldn't walk for more than a few minutes with the rest of the world leaders? i seriously doubt he could do a single pushup
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starrpamph 4 days ago +3
I will remove pushups from the requirement
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Yetanotherdeafguy 4 days ago +2
No push ups, his bone spurs will flare up
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gomurifle 4 days ago +5
Tree-fiddy. 
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Obvious_wombat 4 days ago
At least tree fiddy
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Hi_Im_Dadbot 4 days ago +115
Really? Well, I hear rumours that Trump wouldn’t be able to do a bunch of jumping jacks.
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GetrIndia 4 days ago +48
Oh my god yes! Jumping Jack's are the best way to prove your physical and mental fitness. Only the greatest world leaders can do them.
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Nickmorgan19457 4 days ago +35
Certainly not as many as Obama did the other day.
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01011110_01011110 4 days ago +16
he should get a Nobel peace because I heard hes the best at jumping jacks
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toastronomy 4 days ago +7
*the thing about that is, and I said this to my good friend vance, I told him "vance, I can do more jumping jacks than anyone in the world", and you know what he said? he said, and that is the truth, he said donald, I've never seen anyone do jumping jacks like you do* [turns around after twenty more minutes of rambling and exits the room without doing a single jumping jack]
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Hi_Im_Dadbot 4 days ago +8
That’s all believable except for the part where he remembers Vance’s name.
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toastronomy 4 days ago +1
true, should've used *couchfucker*
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MrFishAndLoaves 4 days ago +6
I heard he couldn’t go up three flights of stairs.
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iDoWeird 3 days ago +2
Careful. This is how things get renamed to “Trumping Jacks” or “Flying Trumps.” He’ll get halfway through one and it’ll be a headline tomorrow paired with incoming branded workout videos for MAGUMPS training.
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Low_Pickle_112 4 days ago +2
I'd pay $20 to see him try.
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Synth-Pro 4 days ago +1
I'll pay $10 per jumping jack Give him motivation to really try and push himself to the limit. Maybe past the limit. Maybe even *very very far* past the limit 😐
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MoreGaghPlease 4 days ago -2
Trump actually completed the 2025 Haliburton Forest Trail Race. It’s a 26 km run in pretty treacherous terrain up and down rocky hills on the Canadian Shield with over 850m of cumulative elevation. Came third in the 60+ division. It’s genuinely impressive, as is the fact that he didn’t promote it at all or call any media and we only know about it because other runners posed posted their selfies with him.
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AudibleNod 4 days ago +83
>Wearing formal office wear, reading glasses and leather shoes, the 68-year-old leader said he did the impromptu workout to ease any worry about his health at a time when people were already beset with problems created by the war in the Middle East. **Raises hand, Horshack-style* "Ooh, ooh! I have someone else who should do this!"
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Fallouttgrrl 4 days ago +34
Biden \-The media, apparently
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ZLUCremisi 4 days ago +15
Meanwhile Biden riding bikes and walking more than 100ft without being tired
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youreloser 4 days ago +5
You can't deny while the guy tried to be active, he walked and just moved very.. oldly.
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shrimpcest 4 days ago +8
...because he was old?
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Ok-Seaworthiness4488 4 days ago +43
If Trump did this he would go into cardiac arrest
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StarblindMark89 4 days ago +10
I think there's a significant risk of his legs bones giving up. I'm on the heavier side, and I can feel my legs at risk of snapping when I exercise.
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InadequateAvacado 4 days ago +13
Feck, there’s that weird boner again
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notasrelevant 3 days ago +1
I honestly can't even imagine him jumping. Like even once. Considering that, I'm not sure if he'd be able to get cardiac arrest from it, unless attempting it is enough to trigger it.
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[deleted] 4 days ago +24
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34710x2 4 days ago +2
Best he can do is fill his diaper and fire off 20 truth social posts that are each more false and nonsensical than the last
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semperknight 3 days ago +1
Best you'd get is an A.I. image of him doing it while angels surround him. Because if he did even one, I'd throw my 64GB of gaming memory in the garbage.
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steve_ample 4 days ago +16
A layer of visceral fat actually is preventing Trump's aorta from popping. He's been advised by doctors to not partake in any activities to dislodge that fat, like jumping jacks.
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trampus1 4 days ago +8
He's now en route to the hospital for a non jumping jack related illness.
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keith2600 4 days ago +7
This is a great trend. Every world leader should do a bunch of jumping jacks and it might goad Trump to do it and that would be as good as killing him. A nice public heart attack caused by his narcissism would be good for the country
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bttr-swt 4 days ago +4
As a Filipino, I am always completely taken aback that they actually voted for ***Ferdinand Marcos' son***. After everything he and his wife did to the Philippines, making it damn near impossible to live in... they elected his son who proudly describes himself as *machiavellian*... only to be surprised when they suspect him of *lying*. The platform he ran on doesn't reflect the policies he's pushing. He self-identified as a conservative and ran on liberal ideas and calls the critics of his father "liars" and "overdramatizing history" when his father ordered the murder of Philippine citizens. What the actual f***.
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dontrike 4 days ago +4
Let's take bets how many jumping jacks Trump can do before his heart gives out.
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BigDrewbot 4 days ago +1
you're assuming that it's not **a** jumping jack?
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Goshawk5 3 days ago +2
I doubt my president could do even one.
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PigFarmer1 4 days ago +3
Trump should do this to *prove* that the rumors are true.
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notches123 4 days ago +3
I dare Trump to do one.
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ike7177 4 days ago +2
i wanna see Trump do them-heck, I wanna see him pass the Presidential Fitness Test. lol
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DJGlennW 4 days ago +1
I don't think he can do one jumping jack without needing a diaper change.
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Cautious-Brother-838 4 days ago
And he needs to draw a clock on live tv.
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strolpol 4 days ago +1
Reinventing The Olympics so it’s only heads of state and losers who don’t place get booted from office
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NPVT 4 days ago +1
I'd trust a jump rope more
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ItsVinn 4 days ago +2
lol because vice president sara Duterte the rat and her fake news peddlers love to show all of these health rumors so they have a ground to kick him off the presidency and she becomes president She even openly did death threats on him lol
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bchoonj 3 days ago +1
those are some of the worst jumping jacks i've ever seen. Marcos is to jumping jacks as that d***** mark wahlberg is to pull ups.
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Wizard_with_a_Pipe 4 days ago +1
Now let's see chump do it!
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GatoLibre 4 days ago +1
I seem to remember Biden doing pushups to prove his fitness early in his term. I dunno if Trump has done a jumping jack in his miserable, pathetic life.
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IowaJL 4 days ago +1
Man person woman camera jump
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Nova17Delta 4 days ago +1
I wonder if theres any other world leaders that could prove theyre fit and healthy right now
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Xsiah 3 days ago +1
Last September https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/prime-minister-mark-carney-runs-26k-trail-race-in-ontario/
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YounomsayinMawfk 4 days ago
He should've just hired the white house doctor. That doctor is the most incredible doctor in the world. He got Trump down to a lean 225 lbs!
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spacestationkru 4 days ago
Hey, I'd love to see Trump do jumping jacks
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CrazyBeggarXXXVI 4 days ago -1
Trump answered by doing a couple of Mike Tyson‘s push-ups and dips then finsh with ten jumping jack on camera saying that was something lite
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