Olympic superstar Simone Biles proclaimed âI love my black jobâ Friday after winning her second gold medal in Paris â 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 âblack jobs.â
During his CNN debate with President Biden in June, Trump slammed Bidenâs immigration policy for taking âblack jobsâ â sparking criticism about what exactly a âblack jobâ might be.
“The fact is that his big kill on the black people is the millions of people that heâs allowed to come in through the border. Theyâre taking black jobs now,” Trump said of illegal immigrants during the debate on June 27.
“Theyâre taking black jobs and theyâre taking Hispanic jobs. And you havenât seen it yet, but youâre going to see something thatâs 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, âSimone Biles being the GOAT, winning Gold medals and dominating gymnastics is her black job.â
The six-time gold medalist added, âI love my black jobâ 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 âturned blackâ at the conference.
âIâve known her a long time indirectly â not directly very much â and she was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didnât know she was black â until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black,â Trump said.
âAnd now she wants to be known as black, so I donât know â is she Indian or is she black? But you know what? I respect either one, but she obviously doesnât.â
He added, âShe was Indian all of the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn, and she went, she became a black person and I think somebody should look into that.â
The vice presidentâs father is black and from Jamaica and her mother was born in India.
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