President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a task force to oversee the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and he’s putting himself in charge of it.
The task force will coordinate federal planning for transportation, security and visa processing for the 2028 games. Mr. Trump said he’s directing agencies like the State Department and Justice Department to “use every tool at their disposal to ensure a fantastic, safe and beautiful event.”
The president will personally chair the task force — in line with a similar Trump-led task force to oversee preparations for the 2026 World Cup — and Vice President JD Vance will serve as its vice chair. Other members include Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
In response to questions from reporters, the president said Tuesday, “we’ll do anything necessary to keep the Olympics safe, including using our National Guard or military.”
It is time for good old Olympic Games boycot. The last major boycot was 1984 when the games were in … wait a minute,… in LA. “All of this has happened before, and will happen again”.
Y’know, why can’t there be 2 Olympics? One hosted somewhere else at the same time to just ignore and exile the US. I’m sorry the state has become a parasite leeching on the globe
boycott these olympics
Not just these: the Olympics are thoroughly corrupted
No more Olympics!
Release the Olympics Epstein files
Trump’s smile looks like a duck with its bill chopped off
He’s going to try to outdo the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.
Who is the Jesse Owens equivalent for 2026? Will we see a Palestinian or a Cuban or perhaps a South African waving a gold medal while Trump looks on sourly?
Any of those will be detained by ICE immediately.
Hope LA just decides to cancel. It would be a disaster anyway with a large proportion of the attendees and participants not coming for fear of ICE or whatever other Republican military force Trump decides to “secure” the event with
I was literally just thinking that. Vegas is a ghost town, most countries are in fear of being stopped at TSA, A Canadian was held for over a week…
This is gonna be a very weird Olympics.
Seriously, what non US citizen would ever want go there to watch it or worse, participate?
I’m sorry, but for the next -at least- 4 years, I won’t visit the US, too dangerous. I haven’t done anything wrong, I’m not a criminal, I’m a perfect stand-up citizen and I’m fucking terrified to visit that fascist country. There is always a non zero chance you’ll end up in a torture prison for no other reason than having the wrong skin color, the wrong opinion, the wrong anything.
I wouldn’t go there if offered a million dollars, I’m not even kidding as it could literally mean the end of my life.
I know that athletes are dreaming about the Olympics but ask yourself, is it really REALLY worth it? Wait until the next Olympics or just go for something different
Seriously, what non US citizen would ever want go there to watch it or worse, participate?
Plenty of people who train their whole lives for a single moment in the spotlight simply aren’t paying attention to the US political scene. Plenty more are, themselves, coming from countries with brutal dictatorial governments and slavishly servile media networks, and simply don’t see what the big deal is.
I wouldn’t go there if offered a million dollars
I won’t say these competitions aren’t about the money, because a ton of it changes hands and the system is notoriously corrupt. But, for the athletes themselves, this isn’t just “giving up a million dollars”. It’s “giving up the last ten years of a 16 year old’s life’s work”.
It would be like telling Magnus Carlson to give up on chess or Jose Altuv to stop playing baseball.
Wait until the next Olympics or just go for something different
Would you give this advice to Jesse Owens?
LA was chosen because the last LA Olympics was the last time a city didn’t rack up a huge debt getting things ready for the Olympics. And since there have been fewer and fewer cities requesting to host they picked LA extra early in hopes that LA can again keep the cost low enough that other cities might want to host again.
And now the idiot in chief is going to put himself in charge and insist that this be the biggest dumbest event ever to try to show off how great he is. And after the embarrassment of his birthday parade there is no way he is going to trust someone else to do this and if LA and the US goes bankrupt paying for it, then well that is Obama’s and Biden’s fault.
Wait until no one shows up like his bigly bestest military parade.
There’s no way the Olympics can really happen. First, Trump will be refusing to issue visas to athletes from countries that fail to give him big cash donations. Then, ICE will end up detaining the best athletes from other countries just to make sure it’s the American athletes who win.
What country would send its prized athletes here when they could end up detained and brutalized for months by ICE?
Then, ICE will end up detaining the best athletes from other countries just to make sure it’s the American athletes who win.
More likely, they’ll just pick out the middling athletes from countries the US doesn’t like in order to make a spectacle of abusing them. Like, heaven help the fucking North Korean or Iranian or Cuban delegations. Heaven help anyone arriving from Palestine.
Sadly our governments don’t care if trump throws us a gulag. It would affect them kissing trumps get on tariffs. And everyone behind those athletes has too much riding on this to quit now.
I’d also be terrified to be a female athlete. Probably the reason Trump wants to head the committee, so he can personally inspect each and every competitor to make sure they’re not actually trans.
Obviously he won’t check for trans men, because that’d be gay, and no woman could ever compete with a “real” man so there’s really no point, since they’d probably barely tie for 5th, and literally no one would care about that.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST ABANDON ALL INTERACTION WITH THIS HELLHOLE
how are you fucking up the Olympics, the football World Cup, your economy AND the global hegemony world order so badly in mere months???
Wow, Trump really thinks he’ll still be capable of running a major event in 2028? He’s clearly been dealing with age-related decline for a while now. There is no recovering once dementia sets in (at least, at this point in medical science.) Then with his distain for the scientific community and the diverse people who do the research, that doesn’t bode well for finding a “cure” in the US anytime soon.
I have a feeling his participation is wishful thinking. I’ll be shocked if he’s still capable of running a bath unsupervised three years from now, let alone an entire Olympic event.
Nah, he just wants to be able to walk in on the girls gymnastics and swim teams while they’re getting dressed.
He also wants to have a commentary show with snoop
Wow, Trump really thinks he’ll still be capable of running a major event in 2028?
Trump has never run anything. He has people to do that for him. Usually people even more stupid and evil than himself.
Dear LA: cancel the Olympics, I know we all “where” looking forward to it but for the good of mankind bow out.
We need a Palestinian Jesse Owens
LA should just bow out, cancel the whole thing. Not worth it.
remember what happened to the homeless last time there was an olympics in LA?
This should be interesting.
Haha that’d be hilarious…
…please please please.
Would be funny if it ended up being hosted in some shitty red state.
SLC again?
Oh man let it be Texas with their practically no building codes and already ridiculously poor public transit (in spite of tons of railways and massive, albeit quite stunning, urban highways).
Would love to watch a bunch shoddy rushed lowest-bidder stadiums on live TV. Do it.
The Olympic committee decides the host country and city around a decade in advance.
I was part of the marketing team that set up the website for LA’s petition back in 2018.
Excuse me. This is America. We like to change our minds after it’s too late.
