Amid her celebrations after winning gold in the 2024 Paris Olympics individual all-around gymnastics final, Simone Biles seemingly took a jab at Donald Trump.
The superstar athlete, whose latest win is the sixth Olympic gold medal of her career, reflected on her achievements in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday.
“I love my Black job,” Biles wrote, responding to a comment from singer-songwriter Ricky Davila, who initially said, “Simone Biles being the GOAT (greatest of all time), winning Gold medals and dominating gymnastics is her Black job.”
The star gymnasts’ comment appeared to be in reference to recent statements Trump has made, claiming immigrants in the U.S. are “taking Black jobs.” He made similar comments at the June 27 presidential debate and then again at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago earlier this week.
“I will tell you that coming from the border, are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking Black jobs,” the former president said at the Chicago convention.
When asked to explain his baseless remark, Trump added, “A Black job is anybody that has a job. That’s what it is. Anybody that has — they’re taking the employment away from Black people. They’re coming in, and they’re coming in, they’re invading.”
At the same convention, Trump also faced criticism after questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’ identity as a Black woman. “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” he said to the room full of Black journalists. “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?
“I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t, because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went — she became a Black person,” Trump added about Harris, who is of both Jamaican and Indian heritage. “I think somebody should look into that too.”
Harris’ campaign quickly responded to the GOP presidential nominee’s statements, calling his hostility “simply a taste of the chaos and division” that Trump’s campaign seeks for a second term in the White House.