The city of Los Angeles, California, is slated to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, and Americans on right and left are increasingly calling for the city to be denied that privilege. Conservatives think LA is far too much of a disaster to host anything, and leftists argue the city would have to work with Trump to host the event, and that doing so is unconscionable.
Entertainingly, the matter came up on Fox Business channel’s “Varney & Co” in late June of this year, when the San Francisco Chronicle, a very woke paper, ran an op-ed arguing that Los Angeles can’t host the Olympics because working with President Trump is just too beyond the pale for those who care about “democracy.”
Broaching the matter, Varney noted that the absurd article is calling for LA to drop the Olympics for political reasons, saying, “I’m dying to get to this one, because I want to know what you think. It’s a new op ed in the San Francisco Chronicle. It wants Los Angeles to withdraw as the host city for the 2028 Olympics.”
Continuing, Varney noted that the basic complaint is that the Trump Administration is doing things like cracking down on illegal immigration, which the left sees as “lawless.” He said, “They argue that hosting the games requires working with Trump and his administration, which the author says is a ‘lawless regime.’ I guess that’s a new level of Trump hatred, Joe.”
Joe Concha, his guest, responded by noting that the whole thing is simply absurd, particularly because Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass are trainwrecks who quite evidently need Trump’s help to do anything effective. He went on to argue that the accusations levied at Trump are utterly ridiculous.
Beginning, he called out the city and state’s ineffective leadership, saying, “I mean, it’s unbelievable. Who do you trust more to make Los Angeles safe, Donald Trump and his federal agencies, or Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, based on what we saw with wildfires, based on what we saw with illegal immigration?”
Continuing, he ridiculed the notion that California is currently being “occupied” by “secret police,” saying, “I mean, it’s amazing when you read this. This piece in the San Francisco Chronicle, it says that Donald Trump has deployed secret police to Los Angeles, which obviously is a nod to the SS Nazi regime, and says that the Los Angeles is currently under federal occupation.”
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He concluded that it is much easier to trust Trump than California’s rulers, saying, “So yeah, about what you would expect from the San Francisco Chronicle, but in the end, I would trust Donald Trump to protect Los Angeles during the Olympics than I ever would local leaders in California based on their records.”
Varney concluded the segment by again noting that the whole thing is simply absurd and ridiculous, saying, “Can you imagine turning down that kind of opportunity to sell your city because you don’t like Trump? It’s so pathetic. It really is. Joe, thanks for being on the new level.” Watch them discuss it here:
Conservatives have argued California should lose the Olympics as well, noting that it seems decayed and lawless, which is not the impression that America wants to make. One such poster on X said, “The Olympics in Los Angeles should be cancelled at this point. Rarely a day goes by now without our troops in the Liberal areas of California.”
Similarly, many others have argued that Texas or Florida would be far better host choices, as they are safe and well run states. One such poster on X said, making that point, “California does NOT deserve to get to host the Olympics! We should give it to Texas or Florida instead!”
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