Humphries defended Trump and the US men's hockey team after a controversial locker room joke
Video Olympic legend Kaillie Humphries comes out in support of Trump after medaling at Milan Cortina Olympics U.S. Olympic bobsledding star Kaillie Humphries reveals her support of President Trump, including his protection of women's sports, his celebration of the men's hockey team, and immigration enforcement as a legal immigrant herself from Canada.
U.S. Olympian Kaillie Humphries cemented her position as the most successful women's bobsled pilot in history. And now she can say what she really thinks.
Humphries won a hard-earned bronze in the women's two-person bobsled last weekend, marking her sixth Olympic medal, adding to her collection of three golds and two other bronzes.
Now, as Humphries looks ahead to her next contribution to Team USA, she hopes to serve on the White House Task Force for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Kaillie Humphries of Team United States competes in the Women's Monobob Bobsleigh Heat 3 on day 10 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Cortina Sliding Centre on Feb. 16, 2026 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. (Daniel Kopatsch/VOIGT/GettyImages)
She hopes to do so as a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump.
"I'm a Republican," Humphries told Fox News Digital, adding that she voted for Trump in 2024.
Humphries owns a unique place in Olympic history as the only bobsledder to win a gold medal for two different countries.
She won gold for Team Canada in the 2010 Vancouver Games and 2014 Sochi Games. Then she went through a grueling process of becoming an American citizen, before competing for Team USA in the 2022 Beijing Games, where she also won gold.
Her process of becoming a legal immigrant and forging a new life in the U.S., having settled in San Diego, California, where she now raises a son with her husband Travis, has given her immense pride as an American. She believes it's a system that must be upheld and respected.
"I stand with legal immigration. I think it's a very hard process, it's not an easy process," she said, noting the American flag on her T-shirt. "It shouldn't be an easy process. It's hard, you are actively seeking something great. It's why I can stand here and be very proud to wear this flag across my chest and represent the United States.
"In order for our country to stay the greatest country in the world, we need those checks and balances… otherwise we're just lawless and people are making stuff up as they go."
USA's Kaillie Humphries holds a USA flag after competing to win bronze in the bobsleigh women's monobob heat 4 at Cortina Sliding Centre during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo on Feb. 16, 2026. (Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)
As a native of Calgary, Alberta, she came up through the country's national development team as a skier, before switching to bobsled in 2002. She went on to earn her first taste of Olympic glory for Canada but had an issue with her coach after the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.
At that point, she had already begun the process of becoming a U.S. citizen, starting in 2016, but continued to compete for Canada. She soon realized she had to make a change.
"I went through a big issue with Bobsled Canada and the head coach that they had hired. And I was physically and mentally abused by the head coach. I physically feared for my safety," she said. "When I brought it up to our administration at Bobsled Canada, they decided to back him as their choice as the coach that they hired in that Olympic year, and not back me.
"They cut my funding, they cut my support, they removed me from the team, and there was no way back on. And because I was living in the U.S. and engaged to an American at the time, I phoned up USA Bobsled."
Fox News Digital has reached out to Bobsleigh Canada for a response.
Humphries had to earn her way onto the U.S. team, spending $70,000 on her own bobsled and even had to buy all her own equipment, before proving that she had plenty left in the tank, even in her late 30s, at U.S. trials ahead of the 2022 Bejing Games. She completed her path to U.S. citizenship in December 2021, just in time to represent the Red, White and Blue in China, where she won the first ever gold in monobob for the U.S.
Canadian Gold medalists Heather Moyse and Kaillie Humphries celebrate on the podium during the medal ceremony for the Women's Bobsleigh event of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at Whistler Medal Plaza venue on Feb. 25, 2010, in Whistler. (Photo by OLIVIER MORIN / AFP)
"I am so grateful that I had the opportunity that USA allowed and empowered me to be the best version of myself and continue my career and allowed me to be the best in the world for such a great country," she said. "It was such an honor to wear the United States flag… and to represent this life now in the United States of America."
Throughout all the hurdles and medals, Humphries developed an appreciation for the sanctity of women's sports, and the sacrifices that women have to go through in order to earn a chance at glory.
Now, as an American living in California, she has had to witness a wave of transgender athletes that have navigated their way into women's sports, both in her state and across the country. And she feels compelled to speak out against it.
As a hopeful member of the White House Task Force on the 2028 Summer Olympics, Humphries is in full support of Trump's proposed mandatory genetic sex testing in order to protect the women's category.
