Simone Biles posted a tweet mocking Trump’s claim that immigrants are taking away “Black jobs.” This story was published by the New York Daily News.
Gymnast Simone Biles dinged former President Trump on Friday by tweeting “I love my Black job” after her latest Olympic gold medal win.
Taking a victory lap after her winning performance at the Paris Games, Biles trolled Trump for his controversial claims that undocumented immigrants are taking so-called “Black jobs” from Americans.
The world champion was amplifying a post by singer/songwriter Ricky Davila that praised Biles as the greatest of all time.
“Iconic photo of the GOAT mastering her black job and collecting gold medals,” Davila tweeted.
Biles won the all-around gold medal on Thursday, her second of the Paris Games. It raised her career haul to nine gold medals, and she could add even more honors with three more finals looming in coming days.
The wins amount to a remarkable comeback after Biles withdrew from the last Olympics to focus on her mental health.
Her tweet amounts to a rebuke of Trump who has refused to back down from controversial remarks about “Black jobs” at his recent debate with President Biden.
Trump doubled down on the comment Wednesday during a forum with reporters at the National Association of Black Journalists in which he also falsely claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris only recently “became Black.”
“A Black job is anybody that has a job,” Trump said at the NABJ event, drawing derisive groans from the crowd.
The spat with Trump isn’t the first tangle between Biles and his right-wing supporters.
Biles’ 2021 decision to withdraw from competition sparked an unusual backlash from Trump’s MAGA allies who suggested she should suck it up and compete regardless of her health concerns.
One of them was Trump’s vice presidential running mate JD Vance, who denounced Americans for supporting Biles’ difficult decision at the time.
“I think it reflects pretty poorly on our … society that we try to praise people, not for moments of strength, not for moments of heroism, but for their weakest moments,” said Vance, who was launching an ultimately successful run for U.S. Senate.
Democrats seized on the remarks this week to take shots at Vance, who has stumbled badly in his debut on the national stage with comments deriding Americans who don’t have children.
“The audacity of JD Vance to go after the GOAT @Simone_Biles as if he isn’t the most unpopular V.P. pick in decades,” tweeted Aida Ross, a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee.
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Has Traitor Trump earned any awards for being the most prolific liar in history?
After all, that’s the traitor’s fascist White Job, lying all the time.
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Trump gets the G.L.O.A.T. award, the Greatest Liar Of All Time. However, his lies are of low quality and are often just gibberish but the quantity of lies is off the charts and into the stratosphere.
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These biased extremists reveal who they are through every misstep and faux pas. Then, they go on the defensive and try to convince everyone of their “pure intentions.” Discrimination, segregation and exclusion are second nature to Trump and company. Good for Biles for making a joke at their expense. She had the last laugh and the medals that go with it.
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Trump may have inserted the foot firmly in the mouth with this statement.
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As a public service to the low-information readers of this blog, I link here to Paul Krugman in 2006 before the politics of immigration overwhelmed economic reasoning.
“….many of the worst-off native-born Americans are hurt by immigration — especially immigration from Mexico. Because Mexican immigrants have much less education than the average U.S. worker, they increase the supply of less-skilled labor, driving down the wages of the worst-paid Americans. The most authoritative recent study of this effect, by George Borjas and Lawrence Katz of Harvard, estimates that U.S. high school dropouts would earn as much as 8 percent more if it weren’t for Mexican immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/opinion/north-of-the-border.html
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Some years ago the right wing seized on the communist issue to appeal to voters whose interests were being ignored by the right wing. Earl Latham pointed out in those days that the communist issue was quite different from the communist problem. The problem was, a foreign power that claimed communism as a philosophy wanted the demise of democratic systems so that it could further its aims. The issue, however, was a different matter. People like Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy were using the issue to frighten people who otherwise might have voted for their opponents. Their effective fear appeals not only achieved success at the ballot box, it created a long tradition of fear appeals that supplanted reason as a way to get the sometimes sleepy public to the polls. This tradition has morphed into a major industry in the post-Cold War political landscape. Its contemporary heir is MAGA, which needs immigration so badly that Trump recently quashed any resolution in the matter.
There is certainly an immigration problem today. There are a lot of problems, but this is the one that can be the most divisive, so the MAGA movement seized it the day Trump walked down the escalator to declare his bid for the presidency in 2015. Like communism, the immigration problem exists and wants a solution that rises from logic and cool-headed planning. Trump demonstrated that he was unwilling to go that route when he instructed his legislative supporters to deep six the bill that recently failed in the Congress. For many reasons, MAGA leaders do not want higher wages for the lowest paid tier of workers. Being manipulated by wealthy owners of businesses who want wages low, the masses of the MAGA movement consistently vote in opposition to their own interests, creating precisely the opposite of the policy they really desire. What would be good for the MAGA millions is a balanced economy that began to make up for 45 years of misguided policy that has seen real wages plumet as a share of the GDP, feeding social problems in so many areas such as homelessness, crime, and education. But they are dupes in a system that scares them into simplifying the problem by hammering the issue.
Of course it is not new. Like the Communist issue of old, it is a difficult issue to find a solution, providing the MAGA operators at last the hint of reality that legitimizes the issue in the minds of the unperceptive. I say let’s solve the problem with logic and keep our democratic institutions intact.
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I just love this kid. You are messing with the wrong person Donald. Great post
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tRump’s pejorative reference to “black jobs” is beyond the pale, since that should include the highest job in our nation, the presidency, and any other high ranking position that has been earned. It’s apparent that tRump & his ilk have met their match today and BRAVO to Simone Biles, Kamala Harris et al for demonstrating that!
People who fail to learn the primary lesson from the history of human oppression, including our own country’s struggles against being ruled by authoritarians and the fights for human rights and the freedom of self-governance, as demonstrated in our Revolutionary War, our Civil War, as well as World War II, which is that people who claim to be better than others just so they can tell everyone else what to do and be in charge of everything, are destined for failure because they have no concern for humankind, while the rest of the world is onto them and their power grab, still cares, and will not tolerate it, so they will rise up in defiance and defense of victims of oppression, defeat the heartless perpetrators and they will hold them accountable for their crimes against humanity. I think, hope and pray that it’s just a matter of time now…
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