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Los Angeles, the city of angels, bad actors and “peaceful” protests where rioters recently threw rocks, bottles, chunks of concrete and exploding mortar-style fireworks at law-enforcement officers is not a place that should not be hosting the 2028 Olympics.
Besides that, it’s a city I’ve always associated with bad luck.
My sister moved to LA with a boyfriend and died within a year and half. An acquaintance, a promising filmmaker, moved there from Philadelphia to begin his film career, got hooked on drugs and has been dealing with bouts of homelessness ever since. A woman friend in the entertainment business, who moved there with her New Yorker husband, tells me she feels trapped in a city she no longer recognizes as “livable.” Her Hollywood friends are violently anti-Trump; it’s nearly impossible for her to find a kindred spirit.
Los Angeles is home to over 1,000,000 illegal aliens, constituting the largest number of illegal aliens in any US city. This fact alone condemns the city as a “secessionist” sanctuary city swamp, especially when you have a mayor like Karen Bass praising LA, as she did when condemning President Trump’s activation of the National Guard to curtail anti-ICE rioters-as “a city of immigrants.”
Democrats can no longer be expected to make distinctions between legal and illegal immigrants.
Bass’ twisted logic says because LA is a city of “immigrants,” ICE should terminate its raids: Have some respect. We are California; we are Los Angeles; we are different. We are above the law. This privileged attitude suggests California already sees itself as separate from the rest of the nation.
As Victor Davis Hanson and others attest, in California more than one-fifth of the population lives below the property line and nearly half the nation’s homeless sleep on the streets of its major cities. The Left has brought a kind of “civilizational collapse” to the state, intensified in recent days by the Governor’s “reckless surrender of Los Angeles to Foreign National Riots,” where rioting Mexicans waving Mexican flags seemed to celebrate a country they’ve no wish to return to.
Just as John F. Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard in June 1963 to force the integration of the University of Alabama, so President Trump federalized the California National Guard to quell LA’s ragtag army of anarchists and rioters.
Yet Governor George Wallace of Alabama capitulated almost immediately to Kennedy’s actions, while in California in June 2025, slick-haired Governor Newsome-a cosmetic throwback to vintage TV Brylcreem hair tonic commercials-announced he was suing the Trump administration for activating the National Guard.
The mainstream media did its usual anti-Trump number when it labeled Newsome’s comments about the state’s lawsuit, “Governor Newsome’s address to the nation,” as if Trump’s calling up of the National Guard was an assault on his lawless state.
The best way to humble the arrogant leaders of this city is to bar the city from holding the 2028 summer Olympics, despite President Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement of LA as Olympic host prior to the anti-ICE riots.
Ironically, there was a change.org petition circulating prior to the riots encouraging a boycott of the 2028 Olympics because of the Trump presidency.
That petition stated:
“It is clear through Trump’s stance on conflicts like the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the conflict in Gaza that he does not stand for peace, but rather for his own selfish interests. In the few months of his presidency, he has broken from US allies in the United Nations and berated president Zelensky, making a disgrace of this country…”
One could update that petition to read:
“It is clear through Newsome’s stance on conflicts like the illegal alien invasion of California that he does not stand for peace or law and order, but rather for his own selfish political interests. In the few years of his governorship, he has broken from US law and berated President Trump, making a disgrace of his country…”
Of course, one could ask: Where were the rioters who attacked law enforcement officers with chunks of broken concrete and other projectiles when Barack Obama deported 2.8 million illegal aliens during his administration?
Add to this the effects of looting, torching cars on fire and destroying public property. As UK Mail concurred, “perhaps today’s activists are motivated more by politics than principle.”
(Scratch out the word ‘perhaps’ in above paragraph and you have the truth.)
Senator Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) recently stated during a Senate hearing that because LA’s liberal leadership will still be in place in 2028, the city is ‘incapable of handling a high-profile’ event like the Olympics.
‘Won’t we be better off as a nation, just to make an acknowledgement of that and move it to someplace that actually will have law and order, that will have the proper amount of protections for American citizens and the tens of millions of visitors that are going to come to both of those events?” Moreno said.
The official website of the Games of the XXXIV Olympaid or Los Angeles 2028 promises the Games will be the greenest in history with a so called “Car-Free” Games vision. The event will cost 7.1 billion.
Meanwhile in LA it’s a ten year wait to get a ruptured sidewalk fixed. And as columnist Steve Lopez noted in the insufferably progressive Los Angeles Times:
“Tens of thousands of people are homeless, and the agency overseeing homelessness is in turmoil amid damning financial audits, so unless there’s a quick turnaround, the city will be draped in blue tarps for all the world to see. Meanwhile, planned transportation improvements are behind schedule, skyrocketing liability claim settlements are expected to cost $300 million this year… and on top of all that, it suddenly dawned on local leaders several weeks ago that the city was broke.”
Economics and the city’s Marxist leadership aside, can a riot-saturated Los Angeles even be trusted to host the Olympics?
As home to 1,000,000 illegal aliens, what could possibly go wrong?
Some on social media commented: “The 2028 Triple Burning Car Broad Jump will be problematic,” as will “the Molotov Cocktail Toss event.”
Some argue LA should be able to host the 2028 Games because the world will get to witness the epic failure of progressive Democrat policies, not to mention that traditionally every city that hosts the Olympics suffers some sort of post-Game trauma.
“The Games have a history of damaging the cities and societies that host them,” according to an article in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. The article cited “broken budgets that burden the public purse…”
Recall that in 1980 the U.S.-led boycott of the Moscow 1980 Games had repercussions in 1984 when the Games were last held in Los Angeles.
At that time communist countries like the Soviet Union, East Germany, and Cuba, retaliated for the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Games by staying away from the 1984 Games. Their big concern then was the safety of their athletes in what they considered a hostile and fiercely anticommunist environment.
Today, that’s all been reversed.
The safety of athletes in 2028 in Los Angeles is at risk because of the city’s fiercely pro-communist environment.