Politics
In a series of posts, Trump shared screenshots of his supporters questioning the Kennedys’ commitment to the arts and accusing them of “rooting for America and Trump to fail.”
Just hours after the death of Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, President Donald Trump took to social media to levy new attacks against the prominent political family with roots in Massachusetts.
In a series of Truth Social posts Tuesday, Trump shared screenshots of his supporters celebrating the addition of his name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and mocking the Kennedys for their response.
Earlier this month, Trump’s handpicked board voted to rename the performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center, a move one of JFK’s nieces, Maria Shriver, labeled “downright weird” and “beyond comprehension.”
Trump fired back Tuesday, his social media posts including screenshots of comments questioning the Kennedys’ commitment to the arts, alleging the family has “long neglected” the center, and accusing them of “rooting for America and Trump to fail.”
The timing of Trump’s posts drew criticism online, with CNN anchor Jake Tapper denouncing them as “social media garbage” and progressive media company MeidasTouch decrying “yet another stunning display of cruelty and utter lack of basic human decency.”
The posts did not mention the death of 35-year-old Schlossberg, an environmental journalist who wrote openly about her terminal cancer diagnosis in a November essay in The New Yorker. Hours before Trump’s Truth Social spree, Schlossberg’s family announced her death in a brief statement that read, “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts.”
Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, is also survived by her husband, George Moran, and their two young children, Edwin and Josephine.
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