For 16 days, America’s diverse athletic talent lit up the Paris Olympics.

Here at home, Vice President Kamala Harris and “Coach” Tim Walz have been lighting up huge, happy and diverse crowds.

In sports and politics, our diversity is our superpower.

At the games, America’s women – and Black women – stood out. Women won 26 of America’s 40 gold medals.

They gave us soul-stirring moments – from Katie Ledecky in the pool to Simone Biles in mid-air to Sha’Carri Richardson on the track (photo) to nerve-racking, nail-biting wins on the soccer pitch and the basketball court.

(For the men, Davidson College’s Steph Curry wasn’t too shabby.)

Meanwhile, Trump, JD Vance and MAGA Republicans have glared and glowered, fussed and fumed, carped and complained – about diversity, “childless cat ladies,” the Olympics’ opening ceremony and the Algerian female boxer.

They truly have a creepy obsession with policing women’s bodies.

Still, Trump remains the undisputed all-time gold-medal champion at one thing: lying.

NPR fact-checked his so-called “press conference” last week “and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes.”

That’s more than two a minute.

Pete Buttigieg said, “That, frankly, is just impressive in terms of being able to physically do that. It’s like the Olympics of lying.”

Worst of all for Trump, Harris is beating him at what he cares most about: crowd sizes.

So, Trump lies about that, too.

The reaction to the Olympics and the response to Harris/Walz say something about many Americans’ mood this year.

We’re tired of the hate, fear and cruelty.

We’re not going back.

We want to go forward with joy, hope and unity.

When the Olympics come to America in four years, we don’t want to see Trump and Vance frowning on the world stage.

We’d rather see President Harris, Vice President Walz and Olympics Ambassador Snoop Dogg smiling up there when the torch is lit.