{"id":59840,"date":"2026-05-06T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/wild-moment-donald-trump-pokes-fun-at-little-girls-volleyball-dream-with-home-truth-in-the-oval-office\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:31:00","slug":"wild-moment-donald-trump-pokes-fun-at-little-girls-volleyball-dream-with-home-truth-in-the-oval-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/wild-moment-donald-trump-pokes-fun-at-little-girls-volleyball-dream-with-home-truth-in-the-oval-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild moment Donald Trump pokes fun at little girl’s volleyball dream with home truth in the Oval Office"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By ALEX RASKIN, US SPORTS NEWS EDITOR<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Donald Trump<\/a> announced the revival of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test <\/a>on Tuesday while also taking a moment to dissuade a young girl from pursuing volleyball.<\/p>\n

‘What do you play?’ Trump asked the unidentified youngster at the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

The child was among a group on hand with golf legend Gary Player to see the President replace former First Lady Michelle Obama<\/a>‘s student health program with the fitness test.<\/p>\n

‘I play volleyball, and in the summer, I’m trying to get into soccer,’ the young lady told the smiling Trump.<\/p>\n

The President then questioned her physical ability to play volleyball.<\/p>\n

‘Wow,’ he began, ‘and with your height, do you smash the ball, the volleyball?’<\/p>\n

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Trump suggested to the girl (left) that she was too short for volleyball and should play soccer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump discussed his own physique and the controversy of trans athletes in women’s sports<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The girl offered a polite ‘no’ in response.<\/p>\n

‘Can you jump high?’ Trump asked.<\/p>\n

‘Not very,’ she responded.<\/p>\n

Trump followed with some unsolicited advice: ‘Soccer might be better.’<\/p>\n

And the President wasn’t done there.<\/p>\n

When one boy said he’d been lifting weights, Trump took the opportunity to address the politics of transgender athletes in female sports.<\/p>\n

‘Did you see that they had a man powerlifter and he decided to go the opposite direction?’ Trump asked the boy. ‘Took a record, stood for 18 years. He beat it by 119 pounds, okay? They put the little quarter of an ounce, quarter of a ounce, and the 18 years it stood, this guy came, he was a failed powerlifter.<\/p>\n

‘But he went on the other side and he decided that he wanted to go into women’s sports and he broke the record by 118 pounds,’ Trump continued.'[Do you] think that’s fair?’<\/p>\n

Trump also poked fun of his own physique.<\/p>\n

‘I work out so much,’ he said. ‘Like, about one minute a day, max. If I’m lucky.’<\/p>\n

In addition to Player, current pro golfer Bryson DeChambeau and former New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard were also on hand for the event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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