{"id":40037,"date":"2025-11-14T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40037\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:14:08","slug":"jack-schlossberg-invokes-kennedy-name-to-drum-up-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40037\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Schlossberg invokes Kennedy name to drum up cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loudmouth Kennedy nepo-baby Jack Schlossberg on Friday shamelessly invoked his assassinated presidential grandfather right out of the gate to try to start drumming up cash for his Big Apple congressional\u00a0bid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m Jack Schlossberg, and my grandfather, President Kennedy, is my hero,\u201d reads the second line of the 32-year-old\u2019s email to supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg posts a cringy low-class video on his social media mocking First Lady Melania Trump.  @jackuno\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The preppy social-media influencer has little experience to his own name, so he\u2019s banking on a name-drop \u2014 and maybe some Park Avenue privilege \u2014 to win him New York\u2019s 12th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI come from a long legacy of public service, from my great-great-grandparents to my mother, Caroline Kennedy,\u201d Schlossberg\u2019s fundraising email continued. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is even bigger than living up to my family name,\u201d the surf-shop worker-turned-candidate contended.<\/p>\n<p>Schlossberg, 32, tries his hand at playing a grown-up while speaking during the 2025 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Ceremony in May.  AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The New York City congressional candidate (left) displays his chops posing with friends on Instagram.  jackschlossbergupdates\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the words of my grandfather, I\u2019m doing this, \u2018Not because it is easy but because it is hard.\u2019 \u201d <\/p>\n<p>Schlossberg graduated from Harvard Law School three years ago, and since then, the Park Avenue prince has been bumbling between a Hawaii surf shop and writing sporadic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/jack-schlossberg-2024-election-poll-analysis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opinion pieces<\/a> for Vogue.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s amassed roughly 800,000 followers on his TikTok, posting random political commentary while flashing his dimples. The Kennedy scion seems to be hoping his social-media presence \u2014 and sentimental attachment to his family name \u2014 will sway the voters in Rep. Jerry Nadler\u2019s Manhattan seat.<\/p>\n<p>Schlossberg, his mother Caroline Kennedy and dad Edwin Schlossberg greet Utah Sen. Mitt Romney in 2022.  CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always been passionate about politics \u2014 you can probably gather as much if you\u2019ve seen any of my social media posts :),\u201d wrote Schlossberg in one of the only sentences in the email that didn\u2019t mention his family. <\/p>\n<p>Despite his left leanings, Schlossberg couldn\u2019t help but even name-drop the Kennedy that is currently in office \u2014 although he appears to detest him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump and his buddies (my cousin RFK Jr. \u2014 to name just one) are tanking the economy, attacking free speech, and sowing distrust in decades of scientific research,\u201d the email states. <\/p>\n<p>Whitehouse Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/12\/us-news\/white-house-slams-jfk-grandson-jack-schlossbergs-ridiculous-campaign-launch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slammed Schlossberg<\/a> for making \u201cridiculous comments\u201d about the administration Wednesday following his campaign announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loudmouth Kennedy nepo-baby Jack Schlossberg on Friday shamelessly invoked his assassinated presidential grandfather right out of the gate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21558,13660,9,24,55,54,56,87,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-40037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-jack-schlossberg","9":"tag-kennedys","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}