On Thursday, Simone Biles made history by becoming the first U.S. gymnast to win two individual all-around gold medals, two days after leading the U.S. women’s team to gold in the team final at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. Biles could be GOAT in the gymnastics arenaBut she’s also very talented in the art of social media trolling. In a social media post on Friday morning, she made an explicit reference to Donald Trumpfalsely claiming that immigrants are a threat to black American jobs. “I love black jobs,” she said, with a black heart emoji.
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In the weeks after Trump to shared One point worth mentioning is that “millions of people [President Joe Biden] allowed to cross the border” are coming for “black jobs,” social media users offended by the implication that African Americans were only qualified for menial, insecure jobs. In response, they began using the phrase to celebrate the breadth of jobs that black people actually held and succeeded in. So it was only natural that Biles chimed in when the singer and social media personality Ricky Davila shared a few photos of Biles showing off her gold medal and goat crystal necklace with the caption, “Simone Biles is the GOAT, winning gold medals and dominating gymnastics is her black business.”
In Netflix’s recent documentary series Simone Biles is on the rise, gymnast speak that her struggles at the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics made her feel like she had something to prove. At the time, attacking Biles for being open about her struggles with mental health became a popular cause on the rightand vice presidential candidate JD Vance even participated.
But in recent weeks, Biles has also appeared to take aim at criticism from within the gymnastics world about The shift of sports to supporting athletesnext a sexual abuse scandal and reforms that swept overly harsh coaches out of the country’s gyms. After winning a team gold medal with Sunisa Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey, And Hezly Rivera, Biles posted a group photo on Instagram with the caption “talentless, lazy, Olympic champion.”
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Maybe it’s a reference to recent comments by My Kayla Skinner, a teammate from the Tokyo Olympics. In a video has been deleted from her YouTube accountSkinner said SafeSport’s reforms have made the sport worse. “I feel like the talent and the depth is not what it used to be. I mean, obviously a lot of the girls are not working hard. The girls don’t have a work ethic,” she said. “Coaches can’t reach the athletes and they have to be really careful about what they say.” In another apologySkinner said the comments reflected her own experiences under the discredited former coach. Martha Karolyi. “I am accepting that I have not fully resolved the emotional and verbal abuse I suffered under Marta, which may have led to my hurtful comments,” she wrote. “I take full responsibility for what I said and I am deeply sorry.” (Károlyi has denied complaints of abuse, but has admitted that the training environment was “tense.”) Despite the comments, the damage was done. After Biles posted, Skinner reported block her on Instagram.
