President Trump Unveils 2028 Olympics Task Force
White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly joins ‘Fox & Friends First’ to discuss President Donald Trump announcing a task force to organize logistics for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics committee added former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Reince Priebus to its board, as seen on the LA 28 website.
The additions come as Trump has taken a heavier hand with his commitment to the upcoming Olympics in LA in recent months.
Trump signed an executive order in August that created a White House Olympics task force for security and other issues. One of the task force’s top priorities will be to coordinate the work of federal, state and local governments on transportation. They will also “streamline visa processing and identification for foreign athletes, coaches, officials and media.”
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Trump has also directly influenced the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s policy on gender equality in women’s sports. In July, the USOPC changed its athlete safety policy to suggest compliance with Trump’s executive order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”
“The USOPC will continue to work with various stakeholders with oversight responsibilities… to ensure that women have a fair and safe competitive environment consistent with Executive Order 14201,” the policy reads.
The president said when he announced the task force in August that there will be a “very strong type of testing” in response to a question about mandatory genetic testing for women’s sports.
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At the USOPC Media Summit in October, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jonathan Finnoff that the SRY gene tests used by World Athletics and World Boxing are “not common” in the United States, but suggested that the USOPC is currently exploring the possibility of applying sex-testing options to its own teams.
“It’s not necessarily very common to get this specific test in the United States, so our goal with that was to help identify labs and options for the athletes to be able to get that test. And based on that experience, and knowing that some other international federations will probably follow suit, figuring out how we can make this seamless process … is where we are now,” Finnof said. “But we have a good process in place.”
Meanwhile, USOPC board chairman Gene Sykes called Trump’s order barring men from women’s sports “consistent with the international trend.”
“And fortunately, the ordinance designed to protect women’s sports in the United States is very much in line with the trend internationally,” Sykes said. “The expectation is that this is where world sport, international sport will go.”
