President Donald Trump shared a number of screenshots mocking the Kennedy household simply hours after the dying of Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of late President John F. Kennedy.
Trump, 79, posted varied screenshots of social media posts by way of Fact Social on Tuesday, December 30, defending the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Middle for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., to The Trump Kennedy Middle. A number of the posts chastised the well-known Kennedy household.
One put up learn: “The Kennedy Household have LONG uncared for the Kennedy Middle, btw. They don’t elevate cash for it. They by no means present up. And the one Kennedy who has been there just lately is a member of Trump’s cupboard.”
“The Trumps have at all times been supporters of the humanities. The Kennedys are supporters of the Kennedys,” one other social media put up learn.
Simply hours earlier, the Kennedy household introduced the dying of Tatiana, who died aged 35 on Tuesday after being identified with terminal acute myeloid leukemia, a type of most cancers, following the beginning of her second little one in Might 2024.
“Our stunning Tatiana handed away this morning. She’s going to at all times be in our hearts,” the JFK Library Basis shared in an announcement posted to Instagram on Tuesday. The put up was signed by Tatiana’s husband, George Moran, their two youngsters, Edwin, 3, and Josephine, 19 months, mother and father Edwin Schlossberg and Caroline, siblings Jack and Rose Schlossberg, and her sister-in-law, Rory McAuliffe.
“My first thought was that my children, whose faces reside completely on the within of my eyelids, wouldn’t keep in mind me,” Tatiana wrote in a New Yorker essay saying her most cancers prognosis final month. “My son may need a number of reminiscences, however he’ll in all probability begin complicated them with footage he sees or tales he hears. I didn’t ever actually get to care for my daughter — I couldn’t change her diaper or give her a shower or feed her, all due to the danger of an infection after my transplants. I used to be gone for nearly half of her first 12 months of life. I don’t know who, actually, she thinks I’m, and whether or not she is going to really feel or keep in mind, when I’m gone, that I’m her mom.”
In D.C., in the meantime, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in an X put up on December 18 that the Kennedy Middle board of trustees — fully appointed by Trump — had voted “unanimously to rename the Kennedy Middle to the Trump-Kennedy Middle, due to the unbelievable work President Trump has finished during the last 12 months in saving the constructing.”
The transfer obtained criticism from members of the Kennedy household, together with Maria Shriver, JFK’s niece.
“The Kennedy Middle was named after my uncle, President John F. Kennedy. It was named in his honor. He was a person who was within the arts, thinking about tradition, thinking about schooling, language, historical past,” she wrote in an Instagram put up on December 18. “He introduced the humanities into the White Home, and he and my Aunt Jackie [Kennedy Onassis] amplified the humanities, celebrated the humanities, stood up for the humanities and artists.”
Shriver added, “It’s past comprehension that this sitting president has sought to rename this nice memorial devoted to President Kennedy. It’s past wild that he would assume including his title in entrance of President Kennedy’s title is appropriate. It’s not.”
