Will Trump Torch L.A.’s Olympics?

Just how severely Donald Trump may impact, tarnish or otherwise undermine Los Angeles’ 2028 Olympic Games remains an open question. But it’s now fair to expect the city’s road to gold and glory will be littered with political potholes.

His administration’s hard-line immigration approach, extreme cost-cutting of federal services and adversarial international relations are at odds with the ethos of the mega-spectacle, which (no matter how much you buy it) bills itself as a beacon of kumbaya globalism.

Trump himself has in recent months reportedly assured the local Olympic organizing committee, LA28, at a private Mar-a-Lago conclave that he’ll be “supportive in every way possible” because, after all, “these are America’s Olympics .” Still, experts are sounding alarm bells. They warn tha