Olympic superstar Simone Biles proclaimed “I love my black job” Friday after winning her second gold medal in Paris — an apparent dig at former President Donald Trump.
The 27-year-old gymnastics legend made the celebratory comment after the former commander in chief was asked at a black journalists conference this week about a previous reference he made to “black jobs.”
During his CNN debate with President Biden in June, Trump slammed Biden’s immigration policy for taking “black jobs” — sparking criticism about what exactly a “black job” might be.
“The fact is that his big kill on the black people is the millions of people that he’s allowed to come in through the border. They’re taking black jobs now,” Trump said of illegal immigrants during the debate on June 27.
“They’re taking black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs. And you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re going to see something that’s going to be the worst in our history.”
On Wednesday, he was asked by reporters at the National Association for Black Journalists conference to define the term.
“A black job is anybody that has a job,” Trump said.
Biles made the comment while retweeting a post by singer-songwriter Ricky Davila, which snarkily declared, “Simone Biles being the GOAT, winning Gold medals and dominating gymnastics is her black job.”
The six-time gold medalist added, “I love my black job” to the retweet, which featured a photo of her flashing a “GOAT” necklace.
Biles won her second gold medal of the 2024 Olympics with an individual all-around gymnastics win Thursday after overcoming an early error on bars.
Trump also caught heat for claiming Vice President Kamala Harris “turned black” at the conference.
“I’ve known her a long time indirectly — not directly very much — and she was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was black — until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black,” Trump said.
“And now she wants to be known as black, so I don’t know — is she Indian or is she black? But you know what? I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t.”
