Simone Biles jabs Trump: 'I love my Black job'

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles took a swipe at former President Trump on X after she won another gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

“I love my black job,” Biles said in a post on the social platform X Friday. Biles won the gold medal for women's all around gymnastic performance on Thursday, following up on her team gold award from earlier in the week.

The former president has used the term “Black jobs” before, and notably used it in a Wednesday interview at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) 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.” 

Older comments by Trump’s 2024 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 stepped out of some competition at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, noting 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.