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.”
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.
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???
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?
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.
Olympics itself needs to be replaced by something better. We need to defund and reallocate the current olympics.
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
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.
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.
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.
They didn’t boycott Hitler’s Berlin Olympics. Now we come full circle…
The Olympics have never placed ethics or morality above a large payday.
I don’t expect this one to be any different.
IOC is probably as corrupt as trumps admin to be honest.
Sign up for a free trial of Peacock and cancel it right before the Olympics to fuck NBC’s numbers.
We need to make executive orders not a thing
Executive orders are fine for directing executive agencies. They are being abused as a replacement for congressional legislation.
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.
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.
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
We need a Palestinian Jesse Owens
Release the Olympics Epstein files
boycott these olympics
Not just these: the Olympics are thoroughly corrupted
No more Olympics!
Dear LA: cancel the Olympics, I know we all “where” looking forward to it but for the good of mankind bow out.
