La now has to calm Trump’s ego against the background of preparing the Olympics

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The 2028 Olympics will open in Los Angeles for exactly three years, and the game planning competes with their policy.

Planning goes better, but politics is becoming more difficult.

The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee has affected Los Angeles’ Cutting Plan In April, giving its print approval of the efforts that will be expanded in the region: surfing in San Clemente, Skateboard and BMX competitions in the San Fernando Valley, Cricket in Pomona and Baseball, of course, at the Doger Stadium. The hosts Committee is obviously plowed forward, dealing with a full range of planning problems, from places to transport and security.

Some pieces remain. Thehe The transport challenge, on the one hand, is greatAnd the plans that have been discovered so far are incomplete, with early promises of “without cars” games, turned into something less ambitious but more prohibited-social transit options that will make the games accessible.

There is also progress on this front: the longstanding connector between the region’s rail system and its airport At the end, it comes until completion. Other LA subway services also go into play.

IOC employees visited Los Angeles this summer and make a compliment to the work doneEspecially after early fears about a slow start. “We have seen significant progress,” said the IOC spokesman, adding that “Management is in force” and “detailed planning progresses.”

It remains to be done, but also time to do so, with the city, the State and the Organizing Committee assumes responsibilities. It helps that this will be the third summer Olympics, host Los Angeles, so that big places should not be built.

This is a challenge, but rational.

Politics? Not so much. President Donald Trump sees the Olympics as little as a chance to telegraph unity and pride and more as a person to bend his political muscle.

Earlier this month, Trump asked the ability of local employees and positioned himself at the center of a rescue operation that no one asked for. He announced a federal working group And he was appointed chairman.

The president even uses the occasion to review his bilateral lie that the devastation made by January fires is the result of insufficient water flowing into the Pacific Northwest region. Which is not trueand that he opened the flow of water to Los Angeles, Which is also not trueS

It is not yet clear what this working group can offer, except to appear in a tired cultural war. Characteristic of his Meander public statements, he took a moment to assure people that “the United States would not allow men to steal trophies from women at the 2028 Olympics.”

Trump also swore that the federal government will be there to guarantee safety, a promise he cannot make without needles for LA Mayor.

“We will do everything we need to keep the Olympics safe, including using our National Guard or Military,” Trump said. “Obviously you have a mayor who is not very competent.”

We’ve seen it before, of course. In June, Trump unleashed the federal forces in Los Angeles to collect non -citizens. Those sore communities where masked federal agents He started grabbing people from the street and the protests erupted in the city center. The protests were briefly violent, but well within the capacity of the Los Angeles police station to control.

Night of clashes settled until the morning, and then Trump called the National Guard – and later the Marines – to “restore order” where there was no disorder. Thehe The effect was to rouse troubleThen ask for a loan when local authorities did their job.

The same Gambit is now underway in Washington, Colombia County, where the president has declared an emergency and sends security, although No objective measure assumes such an emergency or such an answer is necessary. In this sense, the resort governed by the president’s ego is lively more than the desire to change the channel from his Cancel to release Epstein files Or his disappointing summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, not a real danger in Washington.

And so it will be with the Olympics, as Trump insists on turning any event into the opportunity to support it. For LA employees, the task is to align the interests of the region with the Ego of the President – There is no small featS But you can feel them try.

When confronted with Trump’s criticism of her, a bass who will get the chance to host the Olympics if she is re -elected, gently diverted.

“There were presidents who were very visible during the opening and closure ceremony,” ” She told Fox La Reporter Elex MichaelsonS “I’m sure he’ll be here and I’m sure he’ll have a great presence. But will he run the Olympics? No.”

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