President Trump bought 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 Ladies’s Historical past Month celebration at 1600 Penn. Avenue, attended by Chief of Employees Susie Wiles, Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt, Legal professional 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 one among her medals.
At President Trump’s Ladies’s Month speech on Thursday, Olympian Kaillie Humphries gave Trump an award for his influence on ladies’s sports activities, “standing as much as hold organic ladies in ladies’s sports activities” and maintaining males out of ladies’s sports activities.
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Not one among these medals … no gold, silver, or bronze right here. As an alternative, Humphries gave Trump one thing that is arguably extra particular.
“I am so honored to current this, my Order of Ikkos medal to Donald Trump,” Kaillie stated, standing subsequent to the president.
“We solely get one, however I wish to acknowledge the assist and influence you have had on ladies’s sports activities all through the Olympic motion, particularly standing as much as hold organic ladies in ladies’s sports activities, to maintain the sphere of play secure, and permit for honest competitors,” Humphries informed Trump in entrance of the crowded room.
Earlier than handing the medal over, Kaillie added … “I imagine this really makes you the primary president in historical past to ever be awarded an Order of Ikkos as effectively.”
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 accomplished to guard ladies’s athletics, which many on the best imagine is underneath assault.
For his half, Trump appeared stoked to get the OoI, flashing a giant smile, saying, “I knew I preferred her!” earlier than posing for pics.
