President Trump obtained himself some new {hardware} on Thursday throughout a White Home occasion honoring ladies, courtesy of a U.S. Olympic bobsledder … and whereas it is probably not a Nobel Prize, it is an superior honor!
The scene unfolded at a POTUS-thrown Girls’s Historical past Month celebration at 1600 Penn. Avenue, attended by Chief of Employees Susie Wiles, Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt, Lawyer Common Pam Bondi, Second Woman Usha Vance, and others.
U.S. Olympian Kaillie Humphries, a 6x medalist, was additionally within the constructing, and did not squander the second when she stepped to the mic, gifting 45/47 certainly one of her medals.
At President Trump’s Girls’s Month speech on Thursday, Olympian Kaillie Humphries gave Trump an award for his affect on ladies’s sports activities, “standing up to keep biological women in women’s sports” and retaining males out of girls’s sports activities.
Nicely deserved!pic.twitter.com/kdG820BLSh
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Not certainly one of these medals … no gold, silver, or bronze right here. As an alternative, Humphries gave Trump one thing that is arguably extra particular.
“I’m so honored to present this, my Order of Ikkos medal to Donald Trump,” Kaillie mentioned, standing subsequent to the president.
“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,” Humphries informed Trump in entrance of the crowded room.
Earlier than handing the medal over, Kaillie added … “I believe this actually makes you the first president in history to ever be awarded an Order of Ikkos as well.”
The Order of Ikkos was created in 2008, and exists so Olympians can present gratitude to the one that has helped them attain the top of athletics.
In Humphries case, it was DJT … ‘reason for all of the prez has performed to guard ladies’s athletics, which many on the proper consider is below assault.
For his half, Trump appeared stoked to get the OoI, flashing an enormous smile, saying, “I knew I liked her!” earlier than posing for pics.
