Once again, the Kennedy family is in mourning. I don’t need to go into the periodic tragedies that befall them, though the latest is particularly sad. Yesterday, 35-year-old Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, died from acute myeloid leukemia.
Schlossberg was an environmental journalist and Bergen Record municipal reporter, and was diagnosed with the condition on May 25, 2025 – the same day her second child was born. A frantic battle ensued involving months of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, but neither was effective in stopping the condition.
Schlossberg herself wrote about this in a heartwrenching article titled “A Battle With My Blood”, in which she detailed her shock at feeling perfectly healthy when she received her diagnosis and the toll fighting it has taken on her. Now the Kennedy family is grieving her.
In the early afternoon, ET, the Kennedy family announced that JFK’s granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg had died from cancer.
— Jake Tapper
A few hours later, President Trump re-posted some social media garbage attacking the Kennedy family. pic.twitter.com/1gRaX8V71y(@jaketapper) December 31, 2025
So, naturally, now’s the time for Donald Trump to wade in and make everything so much worse. He chose this moment to launch a broadside at the Kennedys for their perfectly understandable fury over him renaming the Kennedy Center the “Trump-Kennedy Center” – or to be more precise “the Donald J Trump and the John F Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.
Trump claims that the Kennedys have “neglected” the Kennedy Center, that they don’t fund it, engage in its administration, and that the family doesn’t support the arts but only themselves.
Read the room…
Maybe that’s all true, but it’s not clear that the Kennedys are even expected to involve themselves in the foundation’s day-to-day running. But even if they were, going after them mere hours after they announce the untimely death of a family member is just cruel.
The reactions are what you’d expect:
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(@WC_Cogswell) December 31, 2025
Hours after John F Kennedy granddaughter died
— Mitchell Jones (@MitchellJo31042) December 31, 2025
Donald Trump got on social media and started mocking the Kennedy family in their time of grief
There is NO excuse for a human being to be this rude, evil and hateful.
News https://t.co/k051ezTspI pic.twitter.com/eLPexlkONd
At this point, why should we expect anything better from him? Trump twisting the knife on a grieving family is rapidly becoming a dog-bites-man kind of story. The real surprise would be if he displayed even a molecule of empathy, kindness or tact towards anyone, ever.
But, frankly, if we ever saw Trump display those qualities, we’d also peek out of the window in the hopes of seeing a pig fly.
