Simone Biles has celebrated her latest Olympic triumph with an apparent swipe at Donald Trump.
The decorated gymnast won her second gold medal at Paris 2024 — and the sixth of her career — in the individual all-around event, cementing her self-embraced status as the GOAT (greatest of all time).
On Friday morning, she reflected on her latest moment of glory with a post on Twitter/X that read: “I love my black job.”
She was responding to a comment from Ricky Davila, a singer-songwriter from Philadelphia. “Simone Biles being the GOAT, winning Gold medals and dominating gymnastics is her black job,” Davila said.
Biles’ post appeared to be a reference to comments made by Trump on Wednesday, when he spoke at the National Associate of Black Journalists convention.
The former president told a roomful of Black journalists that immigrants are taking “Black jobs.” He said: “I will tell you that coming from the border, are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking Black jobs.”
Asked to explain the baseless remark, Trump added: “A Black job is anybody that has a job. That’s what it is.”
During the same event in Chicago, Trump threw shade on whether Vice President Kamala Harris is actually Black. “I’ve known her for a long time indirectly, directly, very much,” Trump exclaimed. “And she was always of Indian heritage and she was promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian, or is she Black?”
