‘I Love My Black Job,’ Simone Biles Says Following Gold Medal Win.
Olympic gymnast Simone Biles took an apparent dig at former President Donald Trump in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday, tweeting, “I love my black job”—a reference to Trump’s criticized comments earlier in the week—after winning two gold medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Biles made the comment while quote-tweeting a post that called her “the GOAT” and said “winning Gold medals and dominating gymnastics is her black job.”
It’s an apparent reference to Trump’s repeated use of “black jobs” as a term, and one he was pressed on at the National Association of Black Journalists earlier this week when ABC’s Rachel Scott asked the former president to define the term.
At the conference of Black journalists, Trump repeated his claim that immigrants are coming into the U.S. and “taking Black jobs,” and when asked what a Black job is, Trump simply said “a Black job is anybody that has a job.”
14.3 million. That’s how many views Biles tweet had in the first six hours since she posted it Friday morning at around 4 a.m. EDT.
This wasn’t the first time Trump—who has also repeatedly claimed to be the “best president for the Black population since Abraham Lincoln”—had discussed the concept of “Black jobs.” In his June 27 debate against President Joe Biden, Trump said: “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 … They’re taking Black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs.” His use of the phrase immediately drew criticism and led people to question what he meant as a Black job. In a statement after the debate, Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, said “there is no such thing as a ‘Black job’ (as) Black Americans excel across industries and professions.” Biden responded to the remark the following day, as well, saying “I know what a Black job is: it’s the vice-president of the United States.”
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