President Donald Trump
Gifted Medal By U.S. Olympian At W.H.
… Thanks For Defending Girls’s Sports activities!!!
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President Trump acquired himself some new {hardware} on Thursday throughout a White Home occasion honoring girls, courtesy of a U.S. Olympic bobsledder … and whereas it will 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 WilesPress Sec. Caroline LeavittLegal professional Basic Pam BondiSecond Woman Usha Vanceand others.
U.S. Olympian Kaillie Humphriesa 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 Girls’s Month speech on Thursday, Olympian Kaillie Humphries gave Trump an award for his affect on girls’s sports activities, “standing as much as preserve organic girls in girls’s sports activities” and conserving males out of ladies’s sports activities.
Properly deserved!pic.twitter.com/kdG820BLSh
@Bubblebathgirl
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 mentioned, standing subsequent to the president.
“We solely get one, however I need to acknowledge the help and affect you’ve got had on girls’s sports activities all through the Olympic motion, particularly standing as much as preserve organic girls in girls’s sports activities, to maintain the sphere of play protected, and permit for truthful competitors,” Humphries instructed Trump in entrance of the crowded room.
Earlier than handing the medal over, Kaillie added … “I consider this really 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 head of athletics.
In Humphries case, it was DJT … ‘reason for all of the prez has executed to guard girls’s athletics, which many on the fitting consider is below assault.
For his half, Trump appeared stoked to get the OoI, flashing an enormous smile, saying, “I knew I appreciated her!” earlier than posing for pics.