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 these olympics
Not just these: the Olympics are thoroughly corrupted
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?
Trump’s smile looks like a duck with its bill chopped off
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.
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???
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.
<Sips Tea>
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?
We need a Palestinian Jesse Owens
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.
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?
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
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.
…f*cking nazis, man; i hope the boycott is vast and conspicuous…
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!
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.
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!
The IOC sell the rights for billions then tell the athletes, the actual content creators, they have to be amateur. In that sense the athletes come across as complete mugs.
Obviously a small number of high profile athletes make loads of money, the rest are skint. Sound familiar? (Hint: hello capitalism), whose ‘competition’ ethos/blag is absolutely promoted by the games. Unfortunately for us all, we need global co-operation, if we are to divert course away from cataclysmic climate change, not global competition, with the many ending up skint while the few take all of the money. The olympics do not help; they are an anachronism
Trump using it for an illegal re-election boost, as he inevitably will, really puts another nail in its coffin. Pity the world cup is in the US (again). FIFA is killing that goose too.
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
Sounds like a way to plant an army of ICE in LA.
they will never leave once they are there.
Uhhhhh
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.
