President Trump obtained himself some new {hardware} on Thursday throughout a White Home occasion honoring girls, courtesy of a U.S. Olympic bobsledder … and whereas it might not be 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 Workers Susie Wiles, Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt, Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi, Second Girl 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 influence on girls’s sports activities, “standing as much as maintain organic girls in girls’s sports activities” and protecting males out of ladies’s sports activities.
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Not a kind of medals … no gold, silver, or bronze right here. As a substitute, 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 mentioned, standing subsequent to the president.
“We solely get one, however I wish to acknowledge the assist and influence you have had on girls’s sports activities all through the Olympic motion, particularly standing as much as maintain organic girls in girls’s sports activities, to maintain the sector of play protected, and permit for honest competitors,” Humphries instructed Trump in entrance of the crowded room.
Earlier than handing the medal over, Kaillie added … “I imagine this truly makes you the primary president in historical past to ever be awarded an Order of Ikkos as properly.”
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 completed to guard girls’s athletics, which many on the suitable imagine is beneath assault.
For his half, Trump appeared stoked to get the OoI, flashing a giant smile, saying, “I knew I appreciated her!” earlier than posing for pics.
