Simone Biles trolls Trump: ‘I love my Black job’
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Took a swipe at former President Trump on the social platform X after she won another gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“I love my black job,” Biles said in a post Friday. The 27-year-old won the gold medal in women’s all-around artistic gymnastics Thursday, following up a team gold from earlier in the week that made her the most-decorated U.S. gymnast of all time.
The former president has used the term “Black jobs” before, and notably used it again in a Wednesday interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention.
“I will tell you that coming — coming from the border are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking Black jobs. You had the best —” Trump said, as one of the moderators asked him what a “Black job” was.
“A Black job is anybody that has a job. That’s what it is,” Trump said. “Anybody that has a job.”
Comments from 2021 by Trump’s current running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance (R), have recently resurfaced in which he said he found it strange “that we’ve tried to turn a very tragic moment, Simone Biles quitting the Olympic team, into this act of heroism.”
“And I think it reflects pretty poorly on our sort of therapeutic society, that we try to praise people not for moments of strength, not for moments of heroism, but for their weakest moments,” Vance continued.
Biles, commonly viewed as the best gymnast of all time, withdrew from some competitions at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, noting she had “the twisties,” which cause a gymnast to lose air awareness, and that she was struggling with her mental health and emotional state. She faced both criticism and praise for her decision, with some labeling her as a “quitter.”
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign.
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