President Trump reveals 2028 Olympics task force
White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly joins “Fox & Friends First” to discuss President Donald Trump’s announcement of a task force to organize logistics for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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The committee behind the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics has added former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Reince Priebus to its board, the LA 28 website shows.
The additions come as Trump has taken a heavier hand with his involvement in the upcoming Los Angeles Olympics in recent months.
Trump signed an executive order in August creating an Olympics task force at the White House 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 accreditation of foreign athletes, coaches, officials and media.”
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Trump also directly influenced the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s policy on gender eligibility in women’s sports. In July, the USOPC changed its athlete safety policy to suggest compliance with Trump’s executive order “Keep Men Out of Women’s Sports.”
“The USOPC will continue to collaborate with various stakeholders with oversight responsibilities…to ensure that women benefit from a fair and safe competition environment consistent with Executive Order 14201,” the policy states.
The president said when announcing the task force in August that there would be a “very strict form 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 said SRY genetic testing used by World Athletics and World Boxing is “not common” in the United States, but suggested the USOPC is currently exploring the possibility of using sex testing options for its own teams.
“It’s not necessarily very common to take this specific test in the United States, so our goal was to help identify labs and options for athletes to take this test. And based on that experience, and knowing that other international federations will likely follow suit, figure out how we can make this process seamless…that’s where we are right now,” Finnof said. “But we have a good process in place.”
Meanwhile, USOPC Board Chairman Gene Sykes called Trump’s executive order to prevent men from participating in women’s sports “consistent with the international trend.”
“And fortunately, the executive order to protect women’s sports in the United States is very much in line with the international trend,” Sykes said. “There is an expectation that this is where world sport, international sport is going.”
