Olympic Bobsledder Awards Trump Medal for IVF Expansion
Bobsled athlete Kaillie Armbruster Humphries presented an Olympic medal to President Trump at a White House Women’s History Month event in March 2026, thanking him for expanding in vitro fertilization treatments that enabled her to become a mother. Armbruster Humphries, a six-time Olympic medalist and naturalized U.S. citizen from Canada, won two bronze medals at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics after being told she could not compete as a mother, delivering her son Aulden in June 2024 following two and a half years of IVF treatments.
The athlete credited Trump’s executive actions on reproductive access and his ban on transgender women competing in women’s sports as meaningful contributions to her Olympic success. She stated that presenting the Olympic Order of Ikkos medal, which athletes may award to individuals who aided their path to the podium, was historically significant, claiming it marked the first time a president received such an honor from an Olympic athlete.
Armbruster Humphries debuted at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics competing for Canada before switching to Team USA in 2019, earning U.S. citizenship in 2021. At Milan Cortina, she won bronze in the women’s monobob on February 16 and partnered with Jasmine Jones to earn a second bronze in the two-woman bobsled on February 21.
Trump responded briefly to the presentation, stating “I knew I liked her. That’s really nice,” according to reporting from USA TODAY. Armbruster Humphries used the platform to encourage mothers to pursue their goals without self-imposed limitations, framing her Olympic success as validation of her personal journey to motherhood and athletic achievement.