WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump recognized Kaillie Armbruster Humphries, a six-time Olympic medalist in bobsled, as part of the celebration of Women’s History Month at the White House, and she returned the favor with an Olympic honor for him.
Armbruster Humphries, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Canada, said it was a huge honor to win medals for her adopted home. She said the honor was particularly sweet after accomplishing it as a mother who was told she could never get into mental and physical shape to medal again. She won two bronze medals for the United States at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.
“The ultimate dream I had was to become a mom and then be able to stand on the Olympic podium,” she said. “This year I got to do that with my one-and-a-half-old-son. Being able to earn these two bronze medals, they feel like gold. They really do. He is my gold medal and will always be for my entire life.”
Armbruster Humphries thanked Trump for expanding IVF treatments for having children and for signing an executive order prohibiting biological men from competing in women’s sports. She delivered her son, Aulden, in June 2024, the result of two-and-a-half years of IVF treatments after being diagnosed with stage IV endometriosis in 2021.
