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Whatever happened to Trump’s ‘Patriot Games’? The latest on president’s teen athletic tournament
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Whatever happened to Trump’s ‘Patriot Games’? The latest on president’s teen athletic tournament

The Independent·Graig Graziosi·27 days ago
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Last July, President Donald Trump announced that he wanted to hold a teen athletic tournament called the Patriot Games , but little has been said about it since, which raises the question: Are the games still happening? The Patriot Games — not to be confused with the Tom Clancy novel of the same name — have not been called off, so it seems as though the event is still meant to take place at some point. On Tuesday, Trump held an event at the White House restoring the Presidential Physical Fitness Award that was phased out along with the Presidential Fitness Test during the Obama administration. Despite the day's focus on student athletics, there was no mention of the games. The last time the Patriot Games were mentioned was during an event in January when Trump was discussing the Great American State Fair and a planned UFC fight at the White House on the president's birthday, according to Delaware Online .…

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