The "Trump Olympics" will be a disaster but they'll look good on television...

[hunter]

... even if they have to clear out the city with tanks and bulldozers and force athletes to compete.

I'm not looking forward to this.

This article from the Guardian is not quite so pessimistic:

‘The Trump Olympics’: president vows to host the ‘greatest games’ in LA, a city that’s felt his wrath

Donald Trump has never conceded his 2020 election defeat. But after lobbying hard for Los Angeles to host the 2028 summer Olympic Games during his first term, the US president has found at least one silver lining to what he calls his “circuitous route” back to the White House.

“I didn’t think I’d be here for the games in this capacity,” Trump mused, as he signed an executive order naming himself the chair of the White House’s LA Olympics taskforce. “But it worked out that way so I’m very happy about that.”

A non-consecutive second term returned Trump to the presidency just in time to oversee the biggest sporting event in the world. And with less than three years to go until the Olympic torch is lit in the city’s storied Coliseum, there is perhaps no bigger X factor looming over the games than the sitting US president.

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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/30/trump-los-angeles-olympics

[Pachamama]

1. Don't feel so certain that the 2028 Olympics are going to be happening as they think

I genuinely think that so many things are happening currently that it’s very possible the games will be faced with both boycotts by many countries and possibly even being moved or delayed.

In any event I don’t think they will be as one thinks or how the Emperor thinks they will go to his advantage as a propaganda event.

[hunter]

2. These Olympics might very well end up as a propaganda event tailored to a U.S. audience...

... largely regarded as a farce by the rest of the world, more actors than athletes, more stage managers than coaches.