Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of President John F. Kennedy, is not in the new archives where many people released Kennedy on Tuesday. Instead, Mr. Schlosberg criticized President Trump, Republican lawmakers and the news media for handling the situation on social media.
Mr. Schlosberg, 32, is the son of President's daughter Caroline Kennedy, and an outspoken voice in democratic politics, and has been a criticism of the Trump administration and its policies. During last year's election cycle, he made a series of comedic Tiktok posts, mocking Republican candidates and his cousin Robert Kennedy Jr., who was running for president as an independent campaign. However, 64,000 pages of files were announced regarding the assassination of his grandfather, according to President Trump's executive order.
In a series of posts on X, even by Mr. Schlosberg's standards, he said the Trump administration did not “look up” to anyone in the Kennedy family before the release of the documents. “Total surprise, don't be shocked!!” he wrote.
The Trump administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Mr. Schlosberg's claim to the Kennedy's early release.
In addition to his own online thread about the documents, Mr. Schlosberg also posted a post on X, a senior Utah senator and a Republican on X, who asked, “Why is it taking so long to post the Kennedy International Airport documents?” Mr. Schlosberg replied, “Do you really care about Kennedy’s legacy? You’re demolishing it.”
Mr Schlosberg, who was hired as a political correspondent for Vogue in July last year, also criticized the news media for its extensive coverage of decades-old documents. Mr. Schlossberg stood there when a political correspondent Harry Enten, with anchor Erin Burnett, and host Erin Burnett, discussing the Kennedy archives, Schlossberg said in a video post: “Why is there a lot of actual news. Why are you covering up this?”
Mr. Schlosberg preserved his toughest criticism for President Trump. He said Mr. Trump was “obsessed” with his grandfather's death, but without his life or policies. For example, Mr. Schlosberg noted that the US International Development Agency or the US Agency for International Development, which the Trump administration recently removed through layoffs, and President Kennedy created an agency that frozen foreign aid in 1961.
Schlossberg arrived Wednesday and declined to comment, beyond what he said on social media.
The American public has long been fascinated by the Kennedy assassination. In 1992, after the Oliver Stone film “JFK” caused a surge in interest (and conspiracy theories), Congress passed a law directing the National Archives and Records Administration to gather in one place on a U.S. government record related to the Kennedy assassination. The law requires that all documents be published within 25 years. According to the National Archives, about 99% of Kennedy papers have been publicly disclosed.
For Mr. Schlosberg, his grandfather's assassination was both a national tragedy and a constant disturbance.
“For decades, the plot surrounding his death has shifted the attention to the important lessons of his life and the key issues of the moment,” Schlosberg once wrote. “They continue to do this today.”
Mr. Schlossberg did not write these words on X yesterday, but in Time – 2017.
