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In the Kennedy family, they ask for the grandson. Jack Schlossberg, 31, supported Kamala Harris during the US presidential campaign. But the failure of the Democratic candidate should not signify hers. Hired this summer by the magazine “Vogue”, star on TikTok, this young and charming member of the clan could soon play a big role in the political history of the United States…
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: you will hear about Jack, his charming grandson, aged 31…
Kennedy: the name may have Irish origins, but it is inseparable from American history. Tragic story above all, since John Fitzgerald, 35th President of the United Statesdied murdered, according to some. It was November 22, 1963 in Dallas, 61 years ago today. than those of this black Lincoln convertible crossing the city center of the capital of Texas. The American head of state is seated in the back of the vehicle with his wife Jacky, dressed all in pink, when a bullet suddenly hits him in the headthrown violently to the side under the impact. By the time she realizes what has just happened, the First Lady rushes, crawling in the back of the vehicle towards a bodyguard who has jumped on the moving car. An hour and a half later, a suspect, Lee Harvey Oswaldis arrested after killing a police officer. Two days later, the man was in turn murdered by Jack Ruby, owner of a nightclub, during his transfer to Dallas prison.
JFK obviously remains the most famous Kennedy. Yet, the weight of this family already weighed on history American since the beginning of the 20th century, and as the late president had eight brothers and sisters and he had three children, the saga, for better, and often for worse, has continued…
In recent days, we have heard a lot about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This nephew of JFK, although a Democrat, like most members of the family, has nevertheless just been promoted by . He will be his Minister of Health. A man who claims that vaccines are responsible for autism, that fluoride causes cancer. Conspirator, anti-vaxhe was once convinced that he had a worm in his head that had eaten part of his brain before dying in his body…
Jack, JFK’s grandson, was also Arnold Schwarzenegger’s nephew
Another Kennedy has made headlines in recent weeks. At the end of August, in the middle of the presidential campaign, Jack Schlossbergless easily identifiable because he does not have the famous surname, appeared in the news by supporting . The Americans know it well:!
John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, his real name, was born in New York in 1993 from the love story between the designer Edwin Schlossberg and the daughter of the former president, Caroline Kennedy. He was also the nephew by marriage of, since his aunt, Maria Shriver, . This young man from a good family grew up in the beautiful neighborhoods of New York and took leave at the farm of his grandmother, Jackie, on an island in Massachusetts. The good life, between America and Japan, where his mother will be ambassador of the United States from 2013 to 2017.
His journey is unique. He of course attended the best schools: Yale and Harvard. But he also always carried out manual activities. When he was young, he worked in the summer on fishing boats. He later became an environmental technician, responsible for cleaning oil tanks. In his spare time, the young man dabbled in comedy by doing stand-up.
He splashes himself with milk in the street or jokes with Eva Longoria
He kept his taste for the show. On his TikTok channel, followed by nearly half a million fansmixes humor and politics in sketches where he portrays himself like a YouTuber. Playing the Rocky Balboa in front of the Philadelphia museum, pouring milk on his body, in a fake psychoanalysis session to explain that he is sick of seeing his fellow citizens ready to vote for Trump, shirtless on his paddle on the Hudson, posing with stars like Or describing her morning beauty routine by dousing herself with talcum powder to absorb sweat, the man does not hesitate to act eccentric to get his messages across. An eccentric, but who knows very well what he is doing, knowing how to address his highly political messages to a young target, to the point that some are already imagining a great career for him, like Kennedy.
In the meantime, he sharpens his mind, his appetite and his pen in the media. Author of a first article at the age of 18 in the columns of the prestigious New York Timeshe has since written for Time, New York Magazine, The Washington Post or the site Politico. Under the exterior of this entertainer indeed a political beast lies dormant. This summer, he was hired by the famous magazine Vogueknown to lean in favor of the Democrats, to cover the election campaign.
On his social networks, the young man showed that his ideas came before his family, he who crushed his cousin, the famous Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom he compared to a “stupid horse doped with testosterone“. Intern of John Kerry, unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2004, beaten by George W. BushSchlossberg said in 2017 that he was sensitive to “the legacy left by his family in the service of the general interest“. A declaration like the promise of a commitment? In any case, he already has most of the cards in hand to succeed and perpetuate the family tradition.
