One month, working a typical retail minimum wage job, only living off of your earnings. (This includes restricted access to credit, housing, etc.)

The test is they’re required to give me a million dollars. If they’re unable to do so because they don’t have access to a million dollars, they pass. If they do, I get a million dollars and they fail

High speed crash test

Hidden camera, ‘abandoned’ box of fundraising candy with a few bars left and an envelope of money ($80). The bottom of the box has a mailing sticker on it to Jamal Brown’s address (that is actually to a low rent accomplice’s home). The trick is finding a likely place the candidate would reasonably find this while alone. Does candidate leave it or take it? Does the box make it to the address intact?

ability to run a mile

• Are you a felon?
• Are you a sex offender?
• Have you been close friend with a notorious pedophile?
• Have you organized an insurrection to steal the elections?
• Are you a fascist?
• Does anybody say of you that you’re a fascist?

If the canditate failed any of the above, I’d pass.

But of course, it’s not like it was possible to know any of these things before 2024 (random date chosen for no particular reason…)

I’d test their ability to admit that their gut instinct is wrong, their ability to empathize with the marginalized, and their ability to navigate the limitations of the presidency when congress is bought.

I’m not gonna bother thinking up a test for each of those things.

Write a 2-page essay, by hand, covering why the US Constitution lays out the government it does. Do this alone with a proctor watching. The paper will be anonymously graded by a panel of high school teachers. If you get less than an A, you can’t run.

Also take AP Government and History tests. Also need an A on those.

Finally, live 6 months on your country’s median income in your country’s capital city. No outside help. Apply for, and take on a job where you aren’t “running” something, but rather “doing” something.