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.
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!
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
Almost a century since the last Nazi olympics. I guess we were due.
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.
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.
LA should just bow out, cancel the whole thing. Not worth it.
Haha that’d be hilarious…
…please please please.
Would be funny if it ended up being hosted in some shitty red state.
SLC again?
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???
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?
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.
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.
So… Foreign athletes will end up being arrested and detained by ICE, won’t they?
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.
boycott these olympics
Didn’t he also say that they want to sex check all the women? Sounds like he wants an excuse to grab 'em all by the pussy. Fucking creep.
Are we still doing that now? I dont see many people trying to come to the U.S. for the Olympics and risking arrest for not being American, being brown, having memes on their phone, being trans, etc…
At this point, it ain’t worth it to come here if you aren’t American. He’ll, debatable if its worth it coming here as an American now.
We need a Palestinian Jesse Owens
