Team USA’s Simone Biles reacts after the vault competition during day two of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games at Stade Bercy on July 28, 2024 in Paris, France.
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American gymnast Simone Biles appeared to take a swipe at former President Donald Trump on Friday morning, tweeting after her victory: ” I love my black job” Second individual all-around gold medal At the Paris Olympics.
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“They’re taking jobs right now from black people, maybe 18, maybe 19, maybe 20 million,” the Republican presidential candidate said during a June 27 debate with President Joe Biden.
“They’re taking away jobs from black people, they’re taking away jobs from Hispanics, and you haven’t seen that yet, but you’re going to see the worst in our history,” Trump said.
The data does not support Trump’s claim that immigrants are “taking jobs” from American workers.
CNBC has asked the Trump campaign to comment on Biles’ tweet.
Former U.S. President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump answers questions during the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention in Chicago, Illinois, July 31, 2024.
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Trump was asked to clarify what he meant by “Black jobs” during a question-and-answer session with three reporters at the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual convention on Wednesday.
“A black job is anyone who has a job,” he said.
“Here’s the thing. Anyone — they’re taking jobs away from black people. They’re coming in, they’re coming in, they’re invading.”
At the same meeting, Trump also questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’ race, falsely suggesting that the de facto Democratic presidential nominee had not always presented as Black.
Simone Biles of the United States poses with the gold medal during the medal ceremony for the women’s team final of artistic gymnastics at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games at the Stade Bercy in Paris on July 30, 2024.
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“She’s always had Indian ancestry, and she was just promoting Indian ancestry,” Trump said. “I didn’t know she was black until a few years ago, when she happened to become black, and now she wants to be called black.”
Harris’ father is black and comes from Jamaica. Her late mother was from India. Harris attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., one of the most historically black colleges and universities.
Biles, widely considered the greatest American gymnast of all time, won her second individual all-around gold medal in Paris on Thursday.
With nine Olympic medals, including six golds, Biles is the most decorated American gymnast in history.
She was also the first American to win multiple individual gold medals and the first Olympic gymnast to win two gold medals in non-consecutive competitions.
Her success in her third Olympics was the culmination of a three-year comeback story.
Biles withdrew from the team finals at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics after battling “twisting,” which occurs when a gymnast loses spatial awareness while in the air.
Her exit sparked a national conversation about mental health, but also painted criticize.
“America hates me. The whole world is going to hate me. All I can see now is what they’re saying on Twitter,” Biles said on the podcast in Aprilrecalling her feelings after the 2021 Olympics.
One of Byers’ critics at the time was Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance, now Trump’s running mate.
Vance, who is running for Senate in 2021, called Byers’ decision to withdraw “the weakest moment.”
Vance said on Fox News that year: “I think it’s great for our therapeutic society that we try to celebrate people not for their moments of strength, not for their moments of heroism, but for their moments of greatest vulnerability. Very bad.
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