Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he is re-establishing the presidential fitness test, a way of assessing the fitness level of American students.

The test was administered in public middle and high schools in the United States from 1966 to 2013, when the Obama administration replaced it with the presidential youth fitness program – a similar physical assessment program, but with more focus on health education.

The health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr – vaccine skeptic and key figure in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement – will be in charge of administering the test.

In a statement reported by the AP, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said the president