Trump Marks Olympic Closing Ceremony by Taking Credit for 2028 Games in Los Angeles

With the Paris Olympics coming to an end in a spectacular closing ceremony on Sunday night, Donald Trump had something else on his mind: himself.

The former president specifically posted on his Truth Social platform to take credit for the fact that the next Summer Games will take place in Los Angeles. “As President-Elect, I worked with the Olympic Organizing Committee of Los Angeles in getting the 2028 Olympics to come to the United States,” he wrote. “There was tremendous competition from other countries.”

In November 2016, a spokeswoman for Los Angeles’ then-Mayor Eric Garcetti said Trump planned to support the city’s bid to host its third Olympics. At the time, L.A. was competing with Paris and Budapest for the 2024 Games, though Budapest eventually withdrew its bid. The International Olympic Committee in 2017 confirmed the 2024 event would be hosted by Paris—which the French wanted in part because it last hosted the games exactly a century earlier, in 1924—while 2028 would go to Los Angeles.

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