Earlier this week, while speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists conference, Trump again referenced “Black jobs” and said he has been the “best president for the Black population since Abraham Lincoln.”
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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 comments earlier in the week for which he was criticized—after winning two gold medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics.Key Facts
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.
