Jack Schlossberg outlined how little President Donald Trump and his cronies have in widespread along with his grandfather, President John F. Kennedy.
“President Trump is obsessed with my grandfather — but not in his life or what he achieved in it. No, just like [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.], [Trump] is only interested in JFK’s carcass,” Schlossberg wrote on X.
Schlossberg then identified some evident variations between the 2 presidents, from their international insurance policies to Trump’s pitiful takeover of the Kennedy Heart.
Whereas Kennedy helped get the Civil Rights Act off the bottom, Trump spent the primary two months of his second time period—together with multibillionaire Elon Musk—dismantling civil rights protections in an effort to destroy authorities businesses.
Equally, Kennedy famously stood agency throughout the Cuban Missile Disaster as the US confronted off towards the Soviet Union in what almost turned a nuclear battle. And alternatively, Trump has embarrassed Individuals by cozying as much as Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on the expense of longstanding U.S. allies.
In 1961, Kennedy inspired the nation to place a person in area and in the end on the moon. Trump has handed over our vaunted area program to the personal billionaire class, enriching Musk over the nation.
Kennedy created one of many cornerstones of our tender energy international coverage initiatives in the US Company for Worldwide Improvement. Conversely, a federal choose lately dominated that Trump and Musk have “likely violated the United States Constitution in multiple ways” of their assaults on USAID, together with kicking out federal staff, freezing funds, and refusing to honor present contracts.
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Schlossberg’s takedown of Trump follows the roughly 63,000 pages of declassified paperwork on Kennedy’s assassination that have been lately launched by the Trump administration.
Critics have dismissed the discharge as a “distraction” and a “nothing burger.” The transfer has additionally drawn comparisons to the White Home’s controversial launch of paperwork on deceased pedophile and former Trump affiliate, Jeffrey Epstein.
Different members of the Kennedy household have been overtly crucial of Trump and his administration. Schlossberg’s mom, Caroline Kennedy, has even warned in regards to the risks of her cousin, Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Schlossberg stays an energetic critic of the Trump administration, and—contemplating the foremost variations between the 2 presidents—maybe his grandfather would have been, too.
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