Not real people

Jared, trying to look like a real person, and Ivanka doing her best to imitate the royals.  Frankly, I think they blend right in.

In the annals of terrible White House staff work, the decision to send Jared Kushner out there alone and unarmed against Jonathan Swan of Axios is going to rank right up there with Alexander Haig's one-man coup d'etat after Ronald Reagan was shot, and whoever it was that handed Ollie North Manucher Ghorbanifar's phone number. When he was not being transparently ill-informed, the Dauphin was being transparently dishonest.

[...]

Swan: So you agree with him on economics, on foreign policy. Where do you stand on abortion?
Kushner: Again, I was not the person who was elected.
Swan: So you agree with the president’s position?
Kushner: I’m here to enforce his positions. His position is the one that as a staffer in the White House, we’ll work to push.

I am not animatronic.

[...]

Swan: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she calls, she has called President Trump a racist. Have you ever seen him say or do anything that you would describe as racist or bigoted?
Kushner: So the answer is no. Absolutely not. You can’t not be a racist for 69 years and then run for president and be a racist. What I’ll say is that when a lot of the Democrats call the president a racist, I think they’re doing a disservice to people who suffer because of real racism in this country.
Swan: Was birtherism racist?
Kushner: Um, look, I wasn’t really involved in that.
Swan: I know you weren’t! Was it racist?
Kushner: Like I said, I wasn’t involved in that.
Swan: I know you weren’t! Was it racist?
Kushner: Um, look, I know who the president is, and I have not seen anything in him that is racist. So, again, I was not involved in that.

I am not entirely conscious much of the time.

[...]

Jared Kushner doesn't care if he sounds like three geese trying to honk the Messiah. He doesn't care that he's supposed to be doing all these important jobs and clearly doesn't know any more about the Middle East than he knows about the sacrificial rituals of the Aztecs. This is not a drawback in anyone's effort to rise in this administration*. Marry the boss's daughter is an extra, for sure. But this guy was born to be a Trump.

  Charles P Pierce

I've seen a couple of clips of the interview, including one where he says the Palestinians aren't ready to govern themselves, and not only is he ignorant, he's smugly ignorant.  I'm sure you can find some video online if you really want to.



"Look, children.  This is what our palace will look like one day."

What does it mean that he took Tiffany but not Barron?  The kid who has already been given his royal title by name.  Do they call those two older idiots Duke and Earl?  I'm sure Ivanka is called Princess.  But how did Tiffany get an invitation?  Oh, wait, I know:  it's the royal equivalent of the Queen's children - 2 boys and 2 girls.