Rusty Weiss
In a memorable moment during Thursday’s White House celebration of Women’s History Month, U.S. Olympic bobsled champion Kaillie Humphries presented President Trump with a rare and deeply personal honor.
Her very own Order of Ikkos medal.
The Order of Ikkos, created by the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee in 2008, is a special award that each American Olympian receives exactly one of to give to an individual who played a key role in their journey to excellence—often a coach or mentor.
Humphries, a six-time Olympic medalist who has represented both Canada and the United States with distinction, chose instead to bestow it on the President of the United States.
“I’m so honored to present this, my Order of Ikkos medal, to Donald Trump,” Kaillie told the president.
Humphries explained the reasoning behind her decision to give away such a personally meaningful award.
“We only get one, but I want to recognize the support and impact you’ve had on women’s sports throughout the Olympic movement, specifically standing up to keep biological women in women’s sports, to keep the field of play safe, and allow for fair competition,” she said.
At President Trump’s Women’s Month speech on Thursday, Olympian Kaillie Humphries gave Trump an award for his impact on women’s sports, “standing up to keep biological women in women’s sports” and keeping men out of women’s sports.
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Olympian Kaillie Humphries Honors Trump with Her Personal Order of Ikkos Medal
Humphries said she believes this makes Trump “the first president in history to ever be awarded an Order of Ikkos as well,” to which he responded, “I knew I liked her!”
The presentation took place in the East Room with several senior administration officials in attendance, including White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Second Lady Usha Vance.
Photos from the event show Trump smiling broadly as he accepted the medal and posed with the decorated athlete.
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Humphries won back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the two-woman event representing Canada at the 2010 Vancouver and 2014 Sochi Winter Games—becoming the first female bobsledder to defend an Olympic title—followed by a bronze in the same event at the 2018 PyeongChang Games.
After switching allegiance to the United States and gaining citizenship, she made history by winning gold in the inaugural women’s monobob event at the 2022 Beijing Olympics (the first woman to earn Olympic golds for two different countries), and added two more bronze medals (in monobob and two-woman) at the 2026 Milano Cortina Games.
Humphries’ gesture is a powerful validation of the president’s consistent advocacy for maintaining fairness and safety in women’s athletics.