US Olympian Kaillie Humphries says she’s Republican who voted for Trump

American Olympic Kylie Humphries She cemented her position as the most successful women’s bobsled leader in history. Now she can say what she really thinks.

Humphreys won B Our hard-earned bronze In the women’s bobsled competition last weekend, recording her sixth Olympic medal, in addition to her collection of three golds and two other bronzes.

Now, as Humphries looks to her next contribution to Team USA, she hopes to serve on the White House staff for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

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Kayleigh Humphries of Team USA competes in the women’s Monobob Bobsleigh Heat 3 on day 10 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics at the Cortina Sliding Center on February 16, 2026 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. (Daniel Kobach/VOIGT/GettyImages)

She hopes to do so as a staunch supporter of the president Donald Trump.

“I’m a Republican,” Humphries told Fox News Digital, adding that she voted for Trump in 2024.

Humphries has a unique place in Olympic history as the only skater to win a gold medal for two different countries.

She won gold for Team Canada at the 2010 Vancouver Games and 2014 Sochi Games. She then went through the arduous process to become a US citizen, before competing for Team USA at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, where she also won gold.

Becoming a legal immigrant and creating a new life in the United States, after settling in San Diego, California, where she is now raising her son with her husband, Travis, has given her enormous pride as an American. She believes it is a system that should be supported and respected.

“I support legal immigration. I think it’s a very difficult process, and it’s not an easy process,” she said, pointing to the American flag on her shirt. “It shouldn’t be an easy process. It’s hard, you’re striving for something great. That’s why I can stand here and be so proud to wear this flag on my chest and represent the United States.”

“For our country to remain the greatest country in the world, we need those checks and balances…otherwise we will be outlaws and people making things up as they please.”

USA’s Kylie Humphries holds the USA flag after competing for the bronze medal in the women’s bobsleigh 4 event at the Cortina Sliding Center during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo on February 16, 2026. (Marco Bertorello/AFP)

A native of Calgary, Alberta, she came through the country’s national development team as a skater, before switching to snowboarding in 2002. She achieved her first taste of Olympic glory for Canada but ran into trouble with her coach after the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.

At that point, she had already begun the process of obtaining US citizenship, starting in 2016, but continued to compete for Canada. She soon realized she had to make a change.

“I went through a huge problem with Bobsled Canada and the head coach they hired. I was physically and mentally abused by the head coach. I was physically afraid for my safety,” she said. “When I brought it up to our management at Bobsled Canada, they decided to support him as their choice of coach they hired that Olympic year, and not me.

“They cut off my funding, cut off my support, cut me off the team, and there was no way back. Because I was living in the US and engaged to an American at the time, I contacted USA Bobsled.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to Bobsleigh Canada for a response.

Humphreys had to fight her way onto the U.S. team, spending $70,000 on her own sled, and even had to buy all her own equipment, before proving she had plenty of gear, even in her late 30s, at the U.S. trials ahead of the 2022 Beijing Games. She completed her path to U.S. citizenship in December 2021, just in time to represent the red, white and blue national teams in China, where she won the first-ever monobob gold medal for the states United.

Canadian gold medalists Heather Moyse and Kelly Humphries celebrate on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women’s bobsleigh event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at Whistler Medal Plaza on February 25, 2010, in Whistler. (Photo by Olivier Morin/AFP)

“I am so grateful that I had the opportunity that the United States allowed me and allowed 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 an honor to wear the United States flag…and to represent this life now in the United States of America.”

Through all the hurdles and medals, Humphreys developed an appreciation for the sanctity of women’s sports, and the sacrifices women have to endure in order to have a chance at glory.

Now, as an American living in California, she has had to witness a wave of transgender athletes making their way into women’s sports, both in her state and across the country. She feels compelled to speak out against it.

As an optimistic member of the White House Task Force on the 2028 Summer Olympics, Humphreys fully supports Trump’s proposed mandatory genetic sex testing in order to protect the women’s category.

“I think it’s very important for women to have their own category to compete in,” she said. “There is a big difference between men and women, especially when it comes to speed, strength and strength-based sports.”

Humphries recalled competing against men in the mixed events in 2015.

“By doing this, I am 100% sure that as a woman in this sport I have no chance of competing against men and achieving success,” she said. “There is a radical difference. We have different chromosomes and different genetics…

“When I look at others [sports] “Like boxing, where there’s an element of physical safety, you know we have to protect women’s sports.”

Most Americans support protecting women’s sports from transgender athletes, according to multiple polls. But some women’s sports fans, who often have left-leaning partisan views, have viewed efforts to provide protections for women as “bigotry” or “transphobia,” including many elected U.S. politicians.

“I would ask if they have ever reached the level of an Olympic athlete and had to try to compete against someone who is world class,” Humphreys said when asked what argument she would make to those who oppose protecting women’s sports. “There are categories for a reason… Women have their own category and they deserve it, men have a category, and if the transgender community wants to compete in a sport, there should be a category for them too…

“We need to help protect women’s sports, or unfortunately, because of this huge disparity, it will end up disappearing.”

US hockey stars show American pride after claiming Olympic gold

Humphreys agreed that critics of protecting women’s sports “use bigotry to hide flaws in their argument.”

Humphries had a moment to appreciate the accomplishments of American female athletes when the U.S. women’s hockey team beat her native Canada in the gold medal game last week. Just days later, she celebrated the US men’s team’s win over Canada as well.

She called it “Miracle on Ice Again.” “To be honest, I have friends on both sides. So there was a part of me that felt for the individual athletes, but I’m very proud that the men and women on both sides were able to bring home the gold medal as a very motivated American.”

Neither hockey team was able to return to the United States before getting caught up in the country’s political scene.

When Trump called the men’s team into the locker room to invite the players to the White House, he made a since-infamous comment, saying, “We’re going to have to bring the women’s team, you know that,” adding, “I think I’ll probably get impeached,” which was met with a chorus of laughter from the players.

While many were angry about the exchange, Humphries didn’t let it bother her.

“I think all jokes about the world can be taken on a personal level, not too personal. I mean that’s the point of jokes,” she said.

“Everyone will take it the way they want… As a woman, I’ll be sensitive to female jokes within the sport, and at the same time, as a high-performance athlete who believes she’s the best in herself, and she’s in a very male-dominated sport, which is figure skating, I can understand when a joke is a joke. So, for me specifically, I’m neutral about it, because it didn’t affect me. It wasn’t a joke about me.”

She added about Trump: “I personally don’t think his intent was intentional because of the way it came across.”

The men’s team went on to visit the White House and even attend Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, all while facing enormous scrutiny from the political left over their reaction to the joke, and their general closeness to the president.

Several major US media outlets wrote editorials condemning the US men’s team for its association with Trump, despite this historic victory.

“I think it’s sad to diminish an accomplishment, a great accomplishment, knowing that they haven’t won in 46 years,” she said.

“For any athlete to be invited to the White House and be proud to represent your country…whether they voted for it or not, you have to celebrate with the absolute person who runs our government. I would go if I was invited. So I don’t blame them. I’m jealous that the men’s hockey team has to go, but I think it’s sad that people want to dismantle the smallest part of that instead of focusing on the positives…

“Unfortunately, politics likes to get in the way of sports.”

Humphries may get a chance to visit the White House herself, as all Team USA athletes are traditionally invited to the White House in the spring after the Winter Games.

This may be her last chance to visit the White House as an Olympic medalist, but it’s not a certainty, as she plans to continue competing even at the age of 40.

However, she has other obligations as a mother with a family that will hopefully grow after she and Travis welcome their son, Olden, in June 2024. Olden was born after a difficult journey that included endometriosis and IVF, and Humphries plans to use IVF again, and depending on how that goes, that will determine her next steps as an athlete.

But the couple feels at peace knowing that IVF will come at a lower cost after Trump signed an executive order in February 2025 focused on reducing IVF costs.

“As an athlete and a mother, knowing that insurance will now cover IVF feels like hope. The financial weight of fertility treatments can be overwhelming, and lifting that burden means we can dream about growing our family with excitement rather than fear,” Humphreys said.

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American bronze medalist Kylie Armbruster Humphries kisses her son on the podium in the women’s bobsleigh at the Cortina Sliding Center during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo on February 16, 2026. (Marco Bertorello/AFP)

If Humphries returns to the sport, finding a way to build on her current resume will be a challenge. She is a six-time Olympic medalist, the only athlete in Olympic history to win gold for two countries and the only athlete to win gold in all three bobsled events.

Now, after winning bronze in the men’s event in Milan-Cortina, she and brakeman Yasmine Jones have become the first Amin-led team to reach the podium in Olympic history.

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