{"id":119292,"date":"2025-08-04T22:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119292\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T22:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:37:12","slug":"plans-task-force-on-2028-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119292\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans Task Force on 2028 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDonald Trump<\/a> is preparing an initiative that could set the White House on another collision course with Los Angeles<\/a> officials.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe president is set to announce a task force on the 2028 Summer Olympics<\/a> in Los Angeles \u2014 with himself on top of the podium.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe White House has scheduled an Oval Office meeting tomorrow with a selection of athletes and members of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to reveal the news, sources confirm. The includes having Trump in charge of the effort. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe White House sent a statement from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirming the news shortly after The Hollywood Reporter published.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDuring his first term, President Trump was instrumental in securing America\u2019s bid to host the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles,\u201d she said. \u201cThe President considers it a great honor to oversee this global sporting spectacle in his second term. Sports<\/a> is one of President Trump\u2019s greatest passions, and his athletic expertise, combined with his unmatched hospitality experience, will make these Olympic events the most exciting and memorable in history.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAdded Casey Wasserman, Chairperson and President of LA28: \u201cOn behalf of LA28, I want to express our deep appreciation to President Trump and his Administration for their leadership and unwavering support as we prepare to deliver the largest and most ambitious Olympic and Paralympic Games ever hosted in the United States. Since we secured this historic opportunity in 2017, President Trump has consistently recognized the magnitude of our responsibility in welcoming the world to Los Angeles. 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.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tWhile it\u2019s certainly not unusual for the federal government to form an Olympics task force, such efforts tend to run by law enforcement departments which provide public safety and security support. The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Secret Service are already announced as involved with LA 28 \u2014 as is the norm when the Olympics are held stateside. Alternately, such government initiatives tend to be centered around securing Olympic bids or providing logistics. <\/p>\n

\n\tThis new effort is said to be an intergovernmental task force that will include several departments, including law enforcement. But Trump getting hands-on with the project could exasperate the fractured relationship between the Trump Administration and state and local leadership \u2014 a relationship which boiled over in June due to immigration raids in the city, with officials ranging from California Gov. Gavin Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass entering into a war of words with the president.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince then, anti-ICE protesters \u2014 and even some in the media \u2014 have urged officials to cancel the Olympics outright due to the raids. Last week, a San Francisco Chronicle columnist argued<\/a>, \u201cHosting an Olympic Games requires us to work together with a lawless U.S. regime\u00a0\u2014 and its rights-violating security apparatus\u00a0\u2014 as it openly wages war against our city and state.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tYet Trump has a long history of supporting LA28. In 2020 during his first term, Trump declared, \u201cFrom the day I took office, I\u2019ve done everything in my power to make sure that L.A. achieved the winning bid\u201d and boasted about the jobs and revenue that the Games would bring to the city. That same month, Trump met with<\/a> LA28 chair Casey Wasserman at Mar-a-Lago and reaffirmed his \u201cunwavering commitment\u201d to make sure the Games were the \u201cgreatest.\u201d In June, Trump ordered a travel ban on 12 countries, yet provided exemptions to Olympic athletes, their coaches and relatives.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump has also exerted pressure on the Games. In January, Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from women\u2019s sports and successfully pushed<\/a> International Olympic Committee (IOC) to change its rules for LA28 to comply with the order.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring that first Olympics press conference five years ago, Trump said to Wasserman \u2014 a bit ironically, as it turns out: \u201cI hope you remember me in 2028. At least give me a seat, OK?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is preparing an initiative that could set the White House on another collision course with Los…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,69,2961,224,5337,3777,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-119292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-olympics","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114972894650452384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}