Mitt Romney's Hot Take On The 2021 Olympics Has People Talking

While many Twitter users agreed with Romney, he was also met with some negative comments like, "You realize how many staff [members] are needed and involved? It's not just athletes, and to put that many people in danger in unconscionable" and "80 percent of Tokyo residents want it canceled. And you think the U.S. government should lean on the Japanese government to force it on them? Why? So your buddies can make money, I'm sure."

It shouldn't come as a surprise that Romney has engaged with the subject of this year's Olympics, as he has past experience with the Games. In 1999, Romney departed from Bain Capital — the company he co-founded and where he served as CEO — in order to accept a role as CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics (via NPR). Later on, when Romney ran for president in 2012, he would claim he helped "save the Olympic Games," while others countered that Romney saw a political opportunity there, and he took it.

"This was part of his game plan," said Ken Bullock, a member of the Salt Lake City Olympic bid and organizing committees. Romney's plan, per Bullock, was, "'I'm going to come here, get a national profile [and] be able to look at how I can position myself so that I can move into higher office.'"

Whether or not this was, in fact, Romney's plan can only be confirmed by Romney himself. However, if it was, indeed, his plan, it appears to have worked. He may have lost his bid for president, but he is now a senator of the state that calls Salt Lake City its capital.