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.”
Boycott the Olympics. Full stop.
Do not participate. Do not let your athletes go to a fascist country. Do not watch or follow any streams. And if you live in this shithole, don’t go.
Sign up for a free trial of Peacock and cancel it right before the Olympics to fuck NBC’s numbers.
Unfortunately, there will probably still be plenty of MAGA types willing to go, especially if Trump starts giving away free tickets to them.
Los Angeles could cancel it.
He’s going to arrest and deport any athlete that might win gold over the US.
This article ignores the most important part of this: Congress allocated a cool $1B in security funding for the games. This commission is simply about grifting that. Thats why Trump himself is in charge, he wants to hand out no-bid contracts like tic tacs.
Plus, it will hurt LA somehow. You can’t have a democratic city with a governor he hates running things successfully.
Boy, NYC is in for a fun time when they elect Mamdani
He will 100% try to over rule it.
STOP THE COUNT!!! COMMUNISTS RIGGED THE ELECTION. I’ve declared a state of emergency and putting myself as head of New York city
Generally the Olympics fucks the home city when it leaves. Trash everywhere and tourist behaviour, lack of etiquette “I wont be here next week” types. And the infrastructure built for it.
All of it abandoned and left for the home country to figure out when it leaves. You dont want an Olympic regulation pool, track, and more, with an athlete’s villa in that spot? Ah well we (the Olympic committee) fucked off after it ended so it’s all yours to clean up!
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Sounds like a way to plant an army of ICE in LA.
they will never leave once they are there.
Uhhhhh
Boycotting the Olympics is in keeping with my policy of never visiting the United States again.
It is demonstrably unsafe to go there.
I would be afraid of even having a layover in the US, no way I would have it as my destination
Everybody needs to boycott this shit…
It’s not safe for US citizens currently, certainly not for non-citizens. It’s not just the athletes but the support staff and fans that would also come over.
It’s just flat out not responsible for foreign countries to encourage their citizens to come here at the moment.
well see how much tourism will go to LA olympics.
All eyes will be on the US, even more than usual. My money is they will play nice and keep their nose clean during the Olympics itself
Olympics itself needs to be replaced by something better. We need to defund and reallocate the current olympics.
Almost a century since the last Nazi olympics. I guess we were due.
Hopefully, the people that Trump hates the most will take platinum medals. Foreign minority poors, basically. Hopefully they will talk about the shittiness of Dogey America and how Trump made a farce of the Olympics.
All medals will have a big T on them.
Anyone care to bet?
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.
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We need to make executive orders not a thing
We need to fix congress and make them capable of tying their own shoes again, so executive orders won’t be needed.
Proportional representation and the ability to recall them will fix a lot
Yes! Recall elections are common outside the US. Why can’t we have the same mechanism to course correct some awful mistakes made by electing morons to office?
Proportional representation would be a big ask: that’d be the biggest constitutional amendment in history by a large margin. Recalls (and term limits, while we’re at it) are probably quite doable. Congress has had terrible approval ratings for decades now.
Oh I don’t expect us to get either without bloodshed.
Executive orders are fine for directing executive agencies. They are being abused as a replacement for congressional legislation.
why would any country send athletes to the Olympics hosted in the US?
I really hope Canada just says fuck no. yes, it sucks for athletes who have been training for this. the whole situation also sucks for the rest of us.
I won’t be supporting this and I will try to avoid supporting any athlete or sponsor of this.
As much as I want that to happen, it won’t. Look at previous examples of Olympics hosted in Russia or China. Or look at the World Cup football in Qatar, in stadiums that were built by slaves, some of them died during construction. Countries didn’t boycot those events, why would that happen now?
And by “some of them”, you mean an estimated 6500 workers have died building the stadiums in Qatar. Didn’t stop Johnny football from enjoying his pints with the games.
Those host nations weren’t actively insulting or bullying their customers. I think it would be much easier for all nations to snub America, because it has been made clear that Dogey America doesn’t like them. Foreign politicians would be lauded for disowning the olympics, since America has been stoking the fires of nationalism by being a jerk.
Because those events didn’t run the risk of athletes being arrested for ??? and deported to a gulag in a third country
Disclaimer: I’m not in favor of what is happening in the US
But honestly, is there a real threat for the athletes this time around?
They weren’t disappearing participants afaik.
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Oh please please please
As an Armchair Olympian, I would gladly give up my dreams to say fuck you to Trump.
You only need to buy transportation to the US.
Just have your athletes self deport thru ICE after their visa expires!
50% cheaper than normal!
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.
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.
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???
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.
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.
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?
Would I recommend anyone not going to a place where they might disappear into a torture prison for life? Yeah, I would
I get your point, absolutely, and these will be shitty decisions that people will have to make, I fully agree, but there are bigger things in life, like living free?
There is a very good non zero chance that some Olympic athletes or their families, or even supporters will be arrested and sent to torture prisons and the fact that barely anyone is worried about that is just weird.
there are bigger things in life, like living free?
What kind of Olympic Athlete - someone whose parents have been rigorously training them for their entire lives - has any concept of living free?
Every hour of your life is spoken for as soon as you’re old enough to walk.
Sooooo, torture prison is okay, then?
You don’t have any real choice when you’re a 16 year old athletic prodigy. You just do what your handlers tell you.
So… Foreign athletes will end up being arrested and detained by ICE, won’t they?
Only if they’re brown
Or have a vaguely brown-sounding name
