American gymnast Simone Biles found time in between counting her record number of Olympic medals to criticize Donald Trump on social media after his offensive and untrue comments during a gathering of black journalists earlier this week.
She posted on X early Friday morning, “I love my black job” with a black heart emoji next to it, in response to another post in which she beamed with her latest Olympic gold medal.
“Simone Biles is the GOAT, winning gold medals and dominating gymnastics, that’s her black belt,” Posted the singer Ricky Davila.
The messages were a direct attack on the former president, who is again the Republican Party’s presidential nominee.
Trump said in an interview with three top journalists at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention on Wednesday that migrants are “taking black jobs in the United States.”
When asked to define a “black job,” he said it is “anyone who has a job.”
His interview, which included numerous gaffes and insults, shocked and enraged the convention in Chicago and millions watching live on TV. He questioned the identity of U.S. Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris as a black woman, eliciting gasps and mocking laughter from the audience.
Later that day, Harris called the comments divisive, saying, “America deserves better.”
It’s not the first time Trump has made such comments: in the presidential debate with Biden, he said that migrants are “taking black people’s jobs now… they’re taking black people’s jobs and they’re taking Latino people’s jobs.”
Joe Biden later responded, telling the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), referring to Harris: “I know what a black job is: It’s the vice president of the United States.”