President John F. Kennedy's only grandson, Jack Schlossberg, was not among the many who are plaguing a new pack of government new files about Kennedy's assassination when it was released Tuesday. Instead, Schlossberg has criticized President Trump, Republican lawmakers and news media on social media for processing files.
Schlossberg, 32, son of Kennedy's daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and his outspoken voice in democratic politics have long been critics of the Trump administration and its policies. During last year's election cycle, he made a series of comedy ticock posts that made a laugh at Republican candidates, and his cousin Robert Kennedy Jr. But under executive orders from President Trump, engraving a 64,000-page file about the assassination of his grandfather created a political individual.
In a series of X posts that even Schlossberg's standards burn, he said the Trump administration hasn't given anyone in President Kennedy's family “with his head up” before the documents were released. “At all surprises, not a shocker!!” he wrote.
The Trump administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Schlossberg's claim that Kennedy had not been advised about the release in advance.
Beyond his own online thread on the file, Schlossberg also had issues with Utah Sen. Mike Lee's X post. Schlossberg replied, “Do you really care about JFK's legacy? You're dismantling it.”
Schlossberg, who was hired as a political correspondent for Vogue last July, was also critical of the widespread coverage of news media's decades-old documents. Standing in front of a wall mounted television adjusted to a CNN. There, political correspondents Harry Enten and Anchor Erin Burnett discussed the news of breaking the JFK file.
Schlossberg saved his harshest criticism of President Trump. He said Trump has an “obsession” about his grandfather's death, but not his life or policy. For example, Schlossberg said that the US International Development Agency, or USAID, was created by President Kennedy in 1961, an agency that the Trump administration recently dismantled through a freeze on recruitment and foreign aid.
Schlossberg, who reached Wednesday, declined to comment beyond what he said on social media.
The American people have long been fascinated by Kennedy's assassination. In 1992, after Oliver Stone's film “JFK” sparked a surge in interest (and conspiracy theory), Congress passed legislation directing the National Archives and the Bureau of Records to collect all known US government records related to Kennedy's assassination. The law required that all documents be released within 25 years. According to the National Archives, approximately 99% of known Kennedy papers have since been published.
For Schlossberg, the assassination of his grandfather is both a national tragedy and a continuous distraction.
“For decades, the plot surrounding his death shifted focus from the key lessons in his life and the key issues of the moment,” Schlossberg once wrote. “They continue to do that today.”
Schlossberg didn't write those words on X yesterday, but in 2017 he didn't write them on Time Magazine.
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