A clip from the September 24 premiere of Fox’s “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” shows George Santos hesitating before a backward dive from a helicopter as instructors berate him. He says he expects to be “out of my element” and is not the most physically fit.
As Santos makes his way to the helicopter’s edge, a member of the show’s Directing Staff shouts, “Come on, you dumb f**k!” Santos says he is overweight and plans to “fake it ’til you make it.”
Santos represented New York’s 3rd Congressional District from January to December 2023 and was expelled after it was revealed he had fabricated his professional and personal biography. He was sentenced to 87 months in prison but served three months before Donald Trump commuted his sentence in October 2025. Santos later told Us Weekly, “Prison was hard. This was harder.”
