Charlie Kirk says he saw “overweight female agents” in the Secret Service
Kirk: “These were not exactly the machismo people you want protecting President Trump”
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Citation From the July 30, 2024, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Now, understand — the Secret Service has different physical qualifications for female agents and male agents. The old Secret Service director, the Dorito woman — who her experience was protecting Mountain Dew and Doritos — was trying to make 30% of all Secret Service agents female. Did you know that Secret Service requires weapon-carrying agents to take physical fitness tests every three months? That makes sense since the people protecting a president should be in top physical condition. But do you know the standards are radically different for men and women? To get an excellent score for push-ups, a 20-something male agent is expected to do at least 55 push-ups. A female agent needs to get the same score, just 40. I can do 73 push-ups — ish. I just tested the other day. I should not be on the Secret Service, for the record. I should be nowhere near the Secret Service. For chin-ups, a male agent in his 20s needs to be able to do 11 chin-ups. A female agent only needs to do four. I can do about eight chin-ups depending on how you qualify it. I should be nowhere near the Secret Service, and a female agent only needs to do four chin-ups? A male agent is expected to run a mile and a half in about 10 minutes. A female agent is allowed nearly 13 minutes. That is not even an eight-minute mile, which explains some of the overweight female agents that I saw at the event this last weekend. I'm not criticizing them, and I'm sure that they deal with weight problems, but these were not exactly the machismo people you want protecting President Trump.