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BumRushDaShow

(158,597 posts)
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 10:29 AM Aug 5

Trump to sign order creating Olympics task force ahead of 2028 games

Source: Reuters

August 5, 2025 2:48 AM EDT Updated 7 hours ago


WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday creating a White House Olympics task force to handle security and other issues related to the 2028 summer Olympic games, an administration official told Reuters.

The task force, made up of members from Trump's cabinet and government agencies, will coordinate federal, state and local government work on transportation, the official said. It also will "streamline visa processing and credentialing for foreign athletes, coaches, officials, and media," the official said in an email.

The United States will host the Olympics in Los Angeles in three years. Trump, a Republican who lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, has expressed pleasure that his second term will coincide with the Olympics and the World Cup.

"During his first term, President Trump was instrumental in securing America's bid to host the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The president considers it a great honor to oversee this global sporting spectacle in his second term," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement on Monday.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/sports/trump-sign-order-creating-olympics-task-force-ahead-2028-games-2025-08-04/

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wcmagumba

(4,617 posts)
2. Nothing reassuring to me in this "order". Trump and his lackeys at the WH are the last people...
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 10:33 AM
Aug 5

I trust in setting up security arrangements for the Olympics...a tragedy waiting to happen...imo...

Traildogbob

(11,655 posts)
6. Here we go
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 10:47 AM
Aug 5

Jesse Owen’s? Will the world send their Black athletes to stomp our asses, after trump and the Supremacy Cult GQP ban our greatest athletes because…..blacks piss off our Shitler?

Lovie777

(19,825 posts)
7. At this point in time.................
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 10:52 AM
Aug 5

what country want to participate?

Except for dictatorship ones, maybe.

Will the US team be all white?

ananda

(32,855 posts)
8. If things proceed as they have been, I can't see an Olympics in 28...
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 10:54 AM
Aug 5

with anyone but Americans participating.

It really wouldn't be sare for anyone else to come here.

lark

(25,384 posts)
9. These will be the worst attended games EVER!
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 11:22 AM
Aug 5

Hope he continues with his foreigner hating and threats and the world stays home and krasnov & American businessneses lose once again.

Crowman2009

(3,223 posts)
10. Suppose they held a Summer Olympics and nobody came?
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 11:27 AM
Aug 5

Get ready for the upper sections to be tarped, the cameras zoom in and pre-recorded audience noise is added to make it sound like it's a packed stadium.

NCDem47

(2,945 posts)
11. If Trump comes...
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 11:32 AM
Aug 5

Expect loud music or fireworks to drown out the booing that will take place.

Sorry Trump, LA is not Tuscaloosa or a cage match.

So where is the LA Olympic organizing party in all of this???

SickOfTheOnePct

(8,351 posts)
15. LA28 statement
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 01:32 PM
Aug 5
"The creation of this task force marks an important step forward in our planning efforts and reflects our shared commitment to delivering not just the biggest, but the greatest Games the world has ever seen in the summer of 2028," Casey Wasserman, the Chairperson and President of LA28, said in a statement about the task force.


https://abc7.com/post/president-trump-sign-executive-order-creating-task-force-2028-olympics-los-angeles/17440740/

Dan

(4,903 posts)
12. This Olympics might be like the 1936 Olympics in Germany.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 11:37 AM
Aug 5

Germany put on a false face to assure that the Olympics would be held in Germany (as it had been designated) and ensure that the various nations would attend. They lied about who they were and once the event was over - evil and hatred reared its ugly head again.

Trump, his Cabinet, this GOP Congress, his enablers and his voters have created an environment where it may not be safe for people that are not white. That is the sad truth, and in some cases, whites may not be white enough. Some people might be upset about this statement, but the MAGA crowd knows that this is true - they know who they are, just reminding them of who they are.

In light of how Trump’s America is not the America that was awarded the rights to put on the Olympics, it should be relocated to another hospitable venue. Whereas Hitler/Germany made false assurances about the 1936 Olympics and the openness about the events, we know that Trump and his entourage will lie, lie, and lie again.

I would hate to see the American Brownshirts/ICE do harm to some innocents non-Americans as they have done to some Americans.

MLWR

(480 posts)
13. With trump charging
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 12:11 PM
Aug 5

foreign visitors $250.00 just to enter the country and requiring a $15,000.00 bond from some, in addition to his fucking tariffs, I doubt that we will have huge crowds. By 2028, with so many foreign tourists boycotting us because of the tariffs placed on their countries, we may not have the necessary hotel rooms and restaurants to accommodate large numbers. My guess is that many hotels and restaurants will have gone out of business by then.

Crowman2009

(3,223 posts)
16. There will probably be less attendance than the disasterous 1932 summer olympics in Los Angeles.
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 02:06 PM
Aug 6

Which was mainly due to the great depression. Not to mention that a lot of athletes had trouble finding food.

Oeditpus Rex

(42,392 posts)
17. Seems like someone in the White House realizes
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 06:09 PM
Aug 6

that The Felon's misadministration has created conditions of international hatred that could foster another Munich '72, but this time against the host country.

moondust

(20,994 posts)
18. I would advise the IOC
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 05:42 PM
Aug 7

to meet and discuss the current foreign travel danger in the U.S. and hold a vote on making an emergency change of the 2028 host country.

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