Donald Trump was awarded a rare Order of Ikkos medal at the White House on 12 March, after US bobsled star Kaillie Humphries used a Women's History Month event to honour the president for what she described as his support for female athletes and fertility treatment. Humphries had returned from the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, where she won bronze in both the women's monobob and the two-woman bobsled for Team USA.
A naturalised American who previously competed for Canada, Humphries is one of the sport's dominant figures. Her decision to use a White House podium to honour a president who has made women's sport and reproductive policy central to his political agenda ensured the gesture would carry political weight beyond the ceremony itself.
