No sooner had at age 35, than President Trump got busy dusting off previous social media posts to cast shade at her bereaved family.
Though he didn’t mention the late Tatiana Schlossberg by name or reference her death, Trump harvested screenshots of his supporters’ posts belittling the famous family after his newly handpicked board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted to .
The Kennedy family on Tuesday from a with the simple message, “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts.”
Schlossberg had about her diagnosis and treatment in The New Yorker in November, a powerful account of a year-long journey that paralleled her cousin Robert Kennedy Jr.’s as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
As condolences poured in, Trump, reportedly miffed at the in the wake of the board’s Dec. 18 name change, pulled supporters’ social media posts out of mothballs and onto Truth Social. He such as, “The Kennedy Family have LONG neglected the Kennedy Center, btw. They don’t raise money for it. They never show up. And the only Kennedy who has been there recently is a member of Trump’s cabinet,” and, “The Trumps have always been supporters of the arts. The Kennedys are supporters of the Kennedys.”
The during the against the institution’s name change, given that Congress had after the presidentap 1963 assassination.
CNN’s Jake Tapper and others led the excoriation charge against Trump’s posts.
“In the early afternoon, ET, the Kennedy family announced that JFK’s granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg had died from cancer,” the anchor wrote on X. “A few hours later, .”
Barely a month earlier, Trump had for his own .
“On a day when the Kennedy family is grappling with an unimaginable personal loss, Donald Trump chose to use his platform to launch petty, vindictive attacks against them,” Meidas Touch wrote on X. “Yet another and utter lack of basic human decency.”
With News Wire Services
