Simone Biles Seemingly Shades Donald Trump Following Olympic Win

Simone Biles reaffirmed her status as the greatest of all time this week by becoming the first American gymnast to win the Olympic individual all-around competition twice. On Tuesday, she also took home the gold alongside Team USA in the Team competition.

As the world celebrated her remarkable achievement, Simone Biles seemingly got a bit political as she took to social media to add a cheeky comment that seemed to take a subtle jab at former President Donald Trump.

Following her Olympic win, Biles shared images of herself showing off her gold medal and silver "GOAT" necklace, captioning it, "I love my black job." Lebron James later re-shared Biles' post, writing "Black," with a goat emoji and a black heart emoji.

Simone Biles' social media comment seemed to refer to former President Trump’s remarks during his debate with President Biden.

"The fact is that his big kill on the Black people is the millions of people that he’s allowed to come in through the border. They’re taking Black jobs now," Trump said of illegal immigrants, per Fox News. "They’re taking Black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs. And you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re going to see something that’s going to be the worst in our history."

Trump’s response to a question about his claim that "millions and millions of people" crossing the U.S.-Mexico border were "taking Black jobs" quickly became controversial. He later reiterated at the National Association of Black Journalists conference.

According to CBS, Trump was pressed by interviewer Rachel Scott of ABC News, which is when he then defined a "Black job" as simply any job that Black people might hold, suggesting that migrants were taking jobs from Black Americans.

Biles' comment appears to reflect the ongoing debate and criticism surrounding these statements.

The most decorated U.S. gymnast in Olympic history added yet another gold medal to her collection after her stunning performance in the women’s all-around final at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Thursday.

“Personally, tonight, it means the world to me,” Biles said, per the Los Angeles Times following the historic win, adding that she made sure to prioritize her mental health ahead of the big event. "Even this morning at 7 a.m., I saw my therapist, and there's a time change," she told reporters. "So she is so amazing for allowing me to do that these (past) couple of days ... I think you see that on the competition floor."

Biles was not the only American to take a spot on the podium. Her Team USA teammate, Suni Lee, also shined, securing a bronze medal in the same event. Her achievement comes after she suffered two kidney-related illnesses in 2023, which forced her to drop out of training. “That was probably the hardest couple of months,” Lee told ELLE ahead of the Games. “I didn’t know if I was going to be able to do it.”

These two wins come just two days after they clinched gold together in the team finals.

Despite competing head-to-head in the Individual All-Around final, Simone Biles and Suni Lee remain close friends and strong supporters of each other.

In an interview with ELLE, Lee expressed her admiration for Biles, saying, “Simone is absolutely incredible, and somebody that I look up to every single time I go and compete against her because the things that she can do are just unreal."

She added, "And it’s so inspiring because it just makes me want to get better and better.”

Simone Biles’ continues to make history as she just became a two-time Olympic all-around champion, joining an elite group of gymnasts, including Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union (1956 and 1960) and Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia (1964 and 1968).

Not only does this gold medal win make her one of only three women to earn this achievement, but she’s also the oldest to top the all-around podium since Maria Gorokhovskaya of the Soviet Union clinched the first-ever Olympic all-around title in Helsinki in 1952 at the age of 30.