President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that “we would do anything necessary to keep our Olympics safe, including using our National Guard or military.”

Trump made the comments after he signed an executive order establishing a task force on the 2028 games, a group that includes cabinet secretaries and administration officials, including FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

Trump’s comment about using the National Guard or military follows his dispatch of troops to Los Angeles in response to protests of ICE raids. His decision to federalize the guard was opposed by California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who said that the show of federal force inflamed the situation.

At a White House event establishing the task force, the chair of the Olympic organizing co

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