Trump appoints task force to ensure ‘safe, seamless’ LA Olympics

President Donald Trump creates LA28 task unit to hole for the archetypal Olympics successful the US since the 2002 Winter Games.

United States President Donald Trump established a task unit connected the 2028 Olympic Games being held successful Los Angeles that helium said would guarantee the lawsuit is “safe, seamless and historically successful”.

The 2028 games volition beryllium the archetypal Olympics to beryllium hosted by the US since the 2002 Winter Games successful Salt Lake City, Utah.

“The LA Olympics is shaping up to beryllium a fantastic infinitesimal for America. It’s going to beryllium incredible. It’s truthful exciting,” Trump said connected Tuesday arsenic helium signed an enforcement bid astatine the White House establishing the task force.

The White House did not instantly merchandise the substance of the bid oregon details astir the task force’s work.

At the event, Trump praised Gene Sykes, seat of the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) committee of directors, for the USOPC’s determination to efficaciously barroom transgender women from competing successful women’s sports.

“The United States volition not fto men bargain trophies from women astatine the 2028 Olympics,” Trump said.

Trump, accompanied by LA28 Chairman Casey Wasserman, holds 1984 Los Angeles Olympics medals arsenic helium delivers remarks, earlier signing an enforcement bid to make a White House task unit to grip information and different issues related to the 2028 games [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]

He questioned wherefore helium did not perceive applause from the country erstwhile helium praised Sykes for this, and past received immoderate claps from immoderate radical successful the room.

Trump “considers it a large honour to oversee this planetary sporting spectacle”, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said successful a statement, calling athletics 1 of the president’s “greatest passions”.

LA28 president and seat Casey Wasserman said the task unit “marks an important measurement guardant successful our readying efforts and reflects our shared committedness to delivering not conscionable the biggest, but the top Games the satellite has ever seen successful the summertime of 2028.”

During a briefing Tuesday afternoon, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the task unit would “coordinate crossed federal, authorities and section agencies to guarantee streamlined visa processes, robust information and businesslike transportation”.

Members of the task unit see Vice President JD Vance, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, among others, Trump announced Tuesday.

Along with the 2028 games, Trump has said that the 2026 FIFA World Cup, being hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico, is among the events helium is astir looking guardant to successful his 2nd term.

In mentation for adjacent year’s competition, the governments of each 3 countries connected Tuesday said they had held the archetypal gathering of a trilateral coordinating assembly of authorities officials, manufacture leaders and information professionals discussing a assortment of issues, including preparedness for immoderate information threats up of the World Cup.

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