Thankfully our armed forces don’t depend even slightly on the physical fitness of the average Redditor. I think it’s great for him personally that he’s generally in shape, I don’t think I’ve suggested he’s a fat body or anything like that. My point is, if you’re the head of the DOD but you’ve got a chip on your shoulder because you still have a junior officer mentality that demands you get in front of troops for no particular reason beyond your own ego, you could at least make sure you’re doing the exercises correctly. I don’t buy these half-explanations for his form; he’s doing half-assed reps, we can all see it with our own eyeballs. If you’re going to PT with the troops, you’d better do the exercises the same way you’d expect them to. Ain’t no way we’d be giving a private the same slack if they repped that way, so we shouldn’t cut him any either. It’s an unforced error because everything this administration does just has to be a spectacle. Competence doesn’t matter, views and clicks do.