Olympic legend who gave Order of Ikkos medal to Trump opens up about aligning with MAGA and political backlash

Olympic women's bobsled fable Kaillie Humphries awarded her Order of Ikkos medal to President Donald Trump Thursday. 

She choked up and became affectional arsenic she spoke astatine a Women's History Month lawsuit astatine the White House, recalling her pridefulness successful becoming a ma done IVF attraction made imaginable by Trump's policies. 

Her Order of Ikkos medal, which is fixed to idiosyncratic who has made an interaction successful an Olympian's journey, recovered its mode to Trump owed to the president's IVF policies and efforts to "save women's sports" from biologic males. 

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"I privation to admit the enactment and interaction you've had connected women's sports passim the Olympic movement, specifically lasting up to support biologic women successful women's sports," Humphries said. "Furthermore, your policies are creating greater entree to IVF, truthful families similar excavation tin proceed to grow.

"I judge this really makes you the archetypal president successful past to beryllium awarded an Order of Ikkos." 

Trump responded, saying, "I knew I liked her." 

Humphries publically aligned with Trump and Republicans during an interrogation with Fox News Digital Feb. 27, soon aft winning 2 bronze medals astatine Milan Cortina, becoming the astir decorated women's bobsledder successful Olympic history.

Humphries revealed she voted for Trump, her enactment for protecting women's sports, migration enforcement arsenic a ineligible migrant from Canada and enactment for the U.S. men's hockey squad for embracing Trump aft winning golden amid left-wing backlash. 

Humphries said she's had to woody with her ain left-wing backlash since then. 

"I've had immoderate radical not hold with my opinions and marque it precise known," Humphries told Fox News Digital Thursday.

"A batch of name-calling. You get called each sanction and connection nether the prima humanly imaginable … and, astatine the extremity of the day, authorities tin beryllium precise affectional for people, and I recognize that. And everyone is entitled to their ain beliefs and what they represent.

"That's their opinion, and I don't person to similar it oregon hold with it. I privation it was different, but that's however it works." 

Kaillie Humphries, a U.S. Olympic bronze medalist bobsled athlete, presents the Order of Ikkos to President Donald Trump during a Women's History Month lawsuit successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, D.C., Thursday, March 12, 2026. (Al Drago/Bloomberg)

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Humphries said, passim her travel arsenic an athlete, she became utilized to competing with a "target connected her back."

"I'm utilized to competing with a people connected my back. I'm utilized to radical not believing oregon wishing ill, hoping amended for them," she added. 

"Being successful an situation wherever I'm not the astir invited oregon I'm not the astir liked, I deliberation that could travel portion successful partial with becoming the astir palmy pistillate bobsledder successful Olympic history. So, I've learned however to woody with that. You'll find your people. You ever find your people."

Bronze medalist Kaillie Armbruster Humphries of the U.S. kisses her lad connected the podium of the bobsleigh women's monobob astatine Cortina Sliding Centre during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games successful Cortina d'Ampezzo Feb. 16, 2026.  (Marco Bertorello/AFP)

During her code Thursday, Humphries choked up a fewer times, particularly erstwhile the taxable was becoming a ma to her 1½-year-old son.

She recalled however she was told she wouldn't beryllium capable to execute elite level competitory results aft giving commencement and the restitution that came with defying those notions. 

"There was nary warrant successful my travel to becoming a ma that it was going to happen," she said. "There was a batch of radical that told me, 'Your assemblage volition ne'er beryllium the same. And you tin ne'er get backmost to the Olympic podium.’ … So, much than thing I wanted to beryllium capable to amusement the satellite that you tin person it all. Chase your dreams.

"Everyone likes to spot limitations connected people, moms specifically, that, your assemblage is not the same, your caput volition ne'er beryllium the same. And those limitations tin beryllium fearful for a batch of women."

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Humphries defied those fears alongside her 2026 Team USA bobsled teammate, Air Force work subordinate Jasmine Jones, who is simply a chap mom. The 2 joined unneurotic to go the archetypal ma duo to medal successful bobsled for the U.S. successful Olympic history. 

"It conscionable means truthful much," Jones told Fox News Digital. "You're capable to chose being a genitor arsenic good arsenic chasing your imagination and your goal. So, being that archetypal ma duo into the Olympics and getting a medal arsenic good conscionable shows into the aboriginal wherever different athletes who bash travel up and besides privation to prosecute having a household tin bash truthful and prosecute being an athlete." 

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